Platanthera japonica (Thunb. ex A. Murray) Lindl. 1835

Plant and Flowers in situ Japan

Photos by © Hisanori Takeuchi and his Orchids of the World Website

Common Name The Japanese Platanthera - In China She Chun Lan

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in China, Korea, Japan and the Ryukyu Islands in forests on grassy slopes nad along hillsides at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters as a medium sied, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem carrying 3 to 6, elliptic to oblong, herbaceous, amplexcaul and basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, racemose, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate bracts that are much longer than the very fragrant flowers

Synonyms Habenaria japonica (Thunb.) A.Gray 1859; Habenaria omeiensis Rolfe 1896; *Orchis japonica Thunb. ex A. Murray 1784; Platanthera manubriata Kraenzl. ex Diels 1900; Platanthera omeiensis (Rolfe) Schltr. 1919; Platanthera setchuenica Kraenzl.1900; Tulotis japonica (Thunb.) Efimov 2008 publ. 2009

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Syst. Veg., ed. 14.: 811 Thunb. 1784 as Orchis japonica

* Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 290 Lindley 1835

Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 289 Lindley 1835 as Platanthera arcuata

Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n.s., 6: 410 A Gray 1859 as Habenaria japonica

Fl. Brit. India 6: 155 Hooker 1890 as Habenaria arcuata

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 265 Kraenzl. ex Diels 1900 as P manubriata

Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1896: 203 Rolfe 1896 as Habenaria omeiensis

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 116 Schlechter 1919 as P omeiensis

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 29: 265 Kraenzlin 1900 as P setchuenica

Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 363 Soo 1929 as P stenantha subsp omeiensis

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974;

Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide;

Native Orchids of Shaanxi - Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide;

Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide;

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;

Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 40: 50 Efimov 2008 publ. 2009 as Tulotis japonica

Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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