Platanthera replicata (A.Rich.) Ackerman 1997
Photo by © Dayron Breto
Drawing by © Mark Nir
Common Name The Folded Back Platanthera
Flower Size
Found in western Cuba at eleavtions around 200 to 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect, slender stem carrying a few, green, linear-lanceolate, acute, conduplicate, rapidly decreasing in size above leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, to 6" [15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Gymnadeniopsis replicata (A.Rich.) Efimov 2008 publ. 2009; *Habenaria replicata A.Rich. 1850;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 250 A Rich 1850A as Habenaria replicata
Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 4: 262 Ames 1910 as Habenaria replicata; * Lindleyana 12: 151 Ackerman 1997 Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 40: 49 Efimov 2008 publ. 2009 as Gymnadeniopsis replicata
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