Platanthera algeriensis Batt. & Trab.1892

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FragrantPart shade WarmCool LATE WinterSpring

Common Name The Algerian Platanthera

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Corsica, Sardinia, Spain, Morroco and Algeria as a medium szied,warm to cool growing terrestrial with usually paired, fusiform tubers giivng rise to basal, 2 to 3, opposite, oblong-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an erect, stout, 12 to 32" [30 to 80 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Platanthera chlorantha subsp. algeriensis (Batt. & Trab.) Emb.1935

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bull. Soc. Bot. France 39: 75 Bastt. & Trab. 1892

Mat. Fl. Maroc.: 488 Emb. 1935 as P chlorantha subsp. algeriensis

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973;

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