Platanthera roseotincta (W.W.Sm.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1940
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Common Name The Rose Tinted Platanthera
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Tibet, the Chinese Himalayas, Nepal and northern Myanmar in alpine grasslands at elevations of 3400 to 4200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, stoloniferous, cylindric rootstock giving rise to an erect to ascending stem with 1 to 2 basal, tubular sheaths and carrying a single cauline, linear to ligulate, obtuse to acute, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, slender, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, 3 to 10+ flowered inflorescence sometimes with 1 foliaceous bract and lanceolate, to ovate-lanceolate, basal ones exceeding the ovary in length floral bracts.
Synonyms Chondradenia doyonensis (Hand.-Mazz.) Verm. 1972; Galearis doyonensis (Hand.-Mazz.) P.F.Hunt 1971; Galeorchis doyonensis (Hand.-Mazz.) Soó 1966; *Habenaria roseotincta W.W.Sm. 1921; Orchis doyonensis Hand.-Mazz. 1936; Platanthera altigena Schltr. 1924
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 13: 210 W W Sm. 1921 as Habenaria roseotincta
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 20: 380 Schlechter 1924 as P altigena
Symb. Sin. 7: 1324 Hand.-Mazz. in 1936 as Orchis doyonensis
* Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 10: 30 Tang & F.T.Wang 1940
Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 12: 352 Soo 1966 as Galeorchis doyonensis
Kew Bull. 26: 171 P F Hunt 1971 as Galearis doyonensis
Jahresber. Naturwiss. Vereins Wuppertal 25: 36 Verm. 1972 as Chondradenia doyonensis
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973 as Chondradenia doyonensis;
Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Ravern and Deyuan 2009;
Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Ravern and Deyuan 2010 drawing ok;
Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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