Platanthera finetiana Schltr. 1910
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Common Name or Meaning Finet's Platanthera [French Botanist 1900's] - In China Dui Er She Chun Lan
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Sichuan, Hubei and southeastern Gansu provinces of China in forests on slopes along valleys at elevations of 1200 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, stout stem with basal, tubular sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, cauline, widely spaced, oblong, ellipti to elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 4 to 7.6" [10 to 18 cm] long, subdensely to densely 8 to 26 flowered inflorescence with several lanceoalte bracts and lanceolate, basal ones longer than the ovary, acuminate floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Habenaria stenantha var. auriculata (Finet) S.Y.Hu 1974; Hemihabenaria stenantha var. auriculata Finet 1901; Platanthera likiangensis Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Platanthera sinica Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Tulotis finetiana (Schltr.) Efimov 2008 publ. 2009
References Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Rev. Gén. Bot. 13: 533 Finet 1901 as Hemihabenaria stenantha var. auriculata
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9: 23 Schlechter 1910
Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 58 Tang & F.T.Wang 1951 as P likiangensis
Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 59 Tang & F.T.Wang 1951 as P sinica
Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 27: 171 S Y Yu 1974 Habenaria stenantha var. auriculata
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as P likiangensis;
Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as P sinica;
Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 40: 50 Efimov 2008 publ. 2009 as Tulotis finetiana
Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 40: 50 Efimov 2008 publ. 200 as Tulotis sinica;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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