Platanthera papuana Schltr. 1911
Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Jany Renz and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Papuan Platanthera
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the Bismark Archipelago and Papua New Guinea in humus of forests at elevations around 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a thickened, fleshy, villous rhizome giving rise to a single, basal, erect, acuminate, cuneate below into the narrowly petiolate base leaf and 1 to 2, cauline, distant, erect-patent-ovate, acuminate, cordate-amplexicaul base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect termianal, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence with erect, oblong-lanceolate, shorter tha the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 4 Schlechter 1911
