!Platanthera urceolata (C.B.Clarke) R.M.Bateman 2009
Photo by © Amit Kotia and the The Flowers of India Website
Photo by © S. Z. Lucksom and the The Orchids of Sikkim and northeastern Himalayas website
TYPE Drawing of Diphyllax urceolata
TYPE Drawing of Diphyllax urceolata by © Hooker f. and Hooker's Icon. Pl. 19: t. 1865 Hooker f. 1889
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Common Name The Jug-Like Platanthera [refers to the spur] - In China Jian Yao Lan
Flower Size .24 to .36" [6 to 9mm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam and Nepal on mossy banks in very moist, evergreen, broad-leaved forests at elevations of 1900 to 4270 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with narrowqly oblong tubers giving rise to an erect-curved, slender, glabrous stem with a bladeless basal, tubular sheath and carrying usually a single, narrowly elliptic-oblong, subacute to obtuse, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on an erect, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, decurved, laxly 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, erect, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying narrowly campanulate flowers
Synonyms Diphylax urceolata (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f. 1889; *Habenaria urceolata C.B.Clarke 1889;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 19: t. 1865 Hooker f. 1889 as Diphylax urceolata
Hooker's Icon. Pl. 19: t. 1865 Hooker f. 1889 as Diphylax urceolata drawing fide
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 73 C B Clarke 1889 as *Habenaria urceolata
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1: 316 King & Pantling 1898
The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 3: pl 415 King & Pantling 1898 as Habenaria urceolata drawing fide;
The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II: 187 Duthie 1906 as Habenaria urceolata;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973;
Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 drawing fide;
Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;
The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;
Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;
A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Diphylax urceolata;
* Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 104: 439 R M Bateman 2009
Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Illustrations: 165 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;
The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 excluded taxa;
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