Platanthera medogensis X.H.Jin & D.L.Lin 2024
Type photo by © X.H.Jin & D.L.Lin and Phytotaxa 646: 117 X.H.Jin & D.L.Lin 2024
Common Name The Motuo Platanthera [American Army Surgeon, Field Naturalist and Orchid Collector later 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Tibet province of China in subtropical, alpine, conifer forestts at elevations around 3450 meeters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, fleshy, cylindrical, stout rootstock giving rise to an erect, stem carrying 2, the basal, oblong-elliptic, narrowing, clasping the stem, apex acute top obtuse-rounded, the upper smaller and lanceoalte-ovate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, provided with fliaceous, ovate-lanceoalte, sterile bracts, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, sparsely arranged, 5 to 13 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, equal to slightly shorter than the ovary and carrying yellow green flowers.
"Platanthera medogensis is close to P. bakeriana and P. chiloglossa, but is readily distinguished from P. bakeriana by having a spur slightly longer than the ovary (vs. more than twice in P. bakeriana) and an ovate-lanceolate lip concave at base with two calli, and from P. chiloglossa in its linear viscidia (vs. narrowly oblong viscidia) and an ovate lanceolate lip that is concave at base with two calli." X.H.Jin & D.L.Lin 2024
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytotaxa 646: 117 X.H.Jin & D.L.Lin 2024
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