Platanthera calderoniae López-Ferr. & Espejo 1994

TYPE Drawing by © López-Ferr. & Espejo and Acta Bot. Mex. 26: 78 López-Ferr. & Espejo 1994

Common Name Doctor Calderon's Platanthera [Graciella Calderon Mexican Botanist current

Flower Size

Found in Michoacan Mexico in arroyos with pine/oak forests at elevations of 2100 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate roots giving rise to an ascending stem enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths carrying 3 to 4, whitem to yellow spotted, narrowly elliptic, oblong to oblanceolate, spereading to arching, solid green leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, 8 to 15 flwoered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, to acuminate, 3 nerved, shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying greenish white flowers

Close to Platanthera nubigena

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Acta Bot. Mex. 26: 77 López-Ferr. & Espejo 1994

Acta Bot. Mex. 26: 78 López-Ferr. & Espejo 1994 drawing fide

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