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The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898

Common Name The Sikkim Platanthera = in China Chang Ban She Chun Lan

Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal at elevations of 3000 to 3600 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a globose tuber giving rise to a short, ebracteate above stem with imbricating, tubular, subacute basal sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, distant, oblong-elliptic, acuter sessile base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, glabrous, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, laxly 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with large, leaf-like, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Habenaria sikkimensis Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Brit. India 6: 155 Hooker 1890 as Habenaria sikkimensis

* Orchid. Gen. Sp. 1: 621 Kraenzlin 1899

The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habnearia sikkimense

The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Habnearia sikkimense drawing fide;

Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide;

Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002;

Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Habenaria sikkimense;

Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007;

Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;

Flora of China Vol 25 Orchidaceae Zhengyi, Raven and Duyuan 2009;

A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 Drawing/photo fide;

Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide

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