Platanthera stapfii Kraenzl. ex Rolfe 1914
Photo A Lamb/Drawing by © Eleanor Catherine/Wood etal 1993
Common NameStapf's Platanthera [Austrian-English Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found only on Mt Kinabalu in Borneo in lower montane forests in damp open areas or between boulders at elevations around 1500 to 2100 meters as a medfium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, short stem carrying 2, unequal, elliptic-lanceolate, acute petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, lateral, peduncle to 26 cm] long, provided with a 11 or so, tubular, acuminate sheaths, rachis 4.8" [12 cm] long, simultaneously 9 or so flowered inflorescence with ovate, subacute, subcoriaceous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Differs from P blumei from Java in the more slender stem, laxer inflorescence and in some respects in its floral structure." Kraenzlin 1914
Synonyms Habenaria stapfii (Kraenzl. ex Rolfe) Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 160 Kraenzlin 1914
Orchidaceae 6: 9 Ames 1920 as Habenaria stapfii
The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide;
A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;
The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011;
*The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide
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