Platanthera stenochila X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q.Huang 2015

Drawing by by © R Pantling

Common Name The Narrow Lipped Platanthera

Flower Size .16 to .24" [4 to 6 mm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas and northwestern Yunnan province of China at elevations around 4000 to 4300 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with an angled stem with 2, basal overlapping, tubular sheaths and 2, linear-lanceolate, acuminate stem bracts and carrying a single, basal, elliptic, obtuse, sessile leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, glabrous, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, subdensely 8 to 12 flowered inflorecence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, single veined, longer than the beaked ovary floral bracts

Synonyms Androcorys angustilabris (King & Pantl.) Agrawala & H.J.Chowdherdy 2010; Herminium angustilabre King & Pantl. 1896; Monorchis angustilabris (King & Pantl.) O.Schwarz 1949; Platanthera angustilabris (King & Pantl.) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin 2014 nom. illeg.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 65: 131 King & Pantl 1896 as Herminium angustilabre

The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: 334 King & Pantling 1898 as Monorchis angustilabris

The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: Pl 439 King & Pantling 1898 as Herminium angustilabris drawing fide;

Mitt. Thüring. Bot. Ges. 1: 95 O.Schwarz 1949 as Monorchis angustilabris

Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Monorchis angustifolia;

Kew Bull. 65: 105 Agrawala & H.J.Chowdherdy 2010 as Androcorys angustilabris

Molec. Phylogen. Evol. 77: 51 X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin 2014 as Platanthera angustilabris nom. illeg.

*Cladistics 32: 210 X.H.Jin, Schuit., Raskoti & L.Q.Huang 2015

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