Platanthera singgalangensis (J.J.Sm.) Efimov 2009
photo/drawing by © L Averyanov and the Hoa Lan Viet Nam Website
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Common Name The Singgalang Platanthera [A town in western Sumatra]
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Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Philippines and New Guinea at elevations of 1000 to 2800 meters in primary coniferous, mixed and broadleaved, evergreen montane forests as a small to large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with an erect more or less robust stem carrying 1 to a few, cauline, sessile, imbricate, triangular, acute, basal, sheaths and and 1 to 2, above the sheaths, grading smaller above, sessile, ovate, acute leaves as well as 1 to 2, from the roots, petiolate, ellitic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid winter through mid spring on a terminal, erect, rachis 6" [15 cm] long, more or less robust, few to many flowered inflorescence
Kew has this one as Platanthera angustata var. singgalangensis
Synonyms Platanthera angustata var. singgalangensis J.J.Sm. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg 3(5): 13 J J Sm. 1922 as P angustata var. singgalangensis
Orchids of Sumatra JB Comber 2001 as Platanthera angustata var singgalangensis photo good;
*Turczaninowia 12(3-4): 17 Efimov 2009
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