Platanthera ophrydioides F. Schmidt 1868

Plant and Flowers in situ Japan

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Common Name The Ophrys-Like Platanthera - In Japan Yakusima-tidori

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Japan and the Ryukyus as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with plural, narrowly oblong tubers giving rise to 1 to 2, ovate to elliptic, blunt to acute leaves that become linear-lanceolate to bracteose above that blooms in the later summer on a tall, slender, terminal, erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, loosely 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Platanthera mandarinorum f australis [Ohwi] Inoue 1982; Platanthera mandarinorum f. monophylla [Honda] Inoue 1982; Platanthera mandarinorum subsp. ophrydioides [F Schmidt] Inoue 1982; Platanthera mandarinorum var monophylla [Honda] Inoue 1982; Platanthera mandarinorum var.ophrydioides Schmidt 1868; Platanthera ophrydioides f. australis [Ohwi] Makino 1940; Platanthera ophrydioides f. monophylla [Honda] Makino 1940; Platanthera ophrydioides subsp. platycorys [Schlechter] Soo 1929; Platanthera ophrydioides var. australis Ohwi 1936; Platanthera ophrydioides var monophylla Honda 1932; Platanthera ophrydioides var. ophrydioides 1868; Platanthera platycorys Schltr. 1919; Platanthera reinii Franch. & Sav. 1878;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint Pétersbourg, Sér. 7, 12(2): 182 F Schmidt 1868 P mandarinorum subsp ophrydioides

Enum. Pl. Jap. 2: 513 Franch & Sa. 1878 as P reinii

Bull. Soc. Bot. France 47: 282 Finet 1900 as P mandarinorum var ophrydioides

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 4: 44 Schlechter 1919 as Platanthera platycorys

Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 362 Soo 1929 as P ophrydioides subsp platycorys

Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 46: 634 Honda 1932 as P ophrydioides var monophylla

J. Jap. Bot. 12: 383 Ohwi 1936 as P ophrydioides var australis

Ill. Fl. Nippon: 699 Makino 1940 as P ophrydioides f australis

Ill. Fl. Nippon: 699 Makino 1940 as P ophrydioides f momophylla

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974

J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 13: 184 K Inoue 1982 as P mandarinorum f australis

J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 13: 185 K Inoue 1982as P mandarinorum var monophylla

J. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, Sect. 3, Bot. 13: 185 K Inoue 1982 as P mandarinorum f monophylla

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