Platanthera nipponica Makino 1902
photo by T. N © and The I Naturalist Website
Collection Sheet by ? © and Kew's Plants of the World Website
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EARLY
Common Name The Japanese Platanthera
Flower Size .16 to .28" [4 to 7 mm]
Found in Japan and Taiwan as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2, radiciform, oblong-fusiform tuberrs giving rise to an erect, very slender stem provided with 2 basal cataphyls and carryiung 3 to 8, lowest largest, broadly linear, acute, evaginate to very shortly vaginat basally, erect, the upper ones smaller, bract-like, linear, acuminate, evaaginate, erect, distant leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, 3 to 6.5" [7 to 15.2 cm] long, rachis slender, laxly 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence with subulate-lanceoalte, acuminate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish flowers.
Similar to P tipuloides and has often been cited as a variety of said species
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 16: 153 Makino 1902
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 167 Schlechter 1906 as P matsumurana
Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus. Tokyo 33: 69 Ohwi 1953 as P tipuloides subsp. nipponica
Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 22: 65 Murata 1966 as P tipuloides subsp. nipponica
Orchid Flowers 2: 56 M Hiroe 1971 as P tipuloides f nipponica
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