Platanthera urceolata (Hook.f.) R.M.Bateman 2009

Drawing by © Som Deva & H.B.Naithani and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Jug-Like Platanthera

Flower Size .32" [8 mm] long

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas and Nepal at elevations of 3300 to 3600 metrs as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with narrow, elongate tubers giving rise to an eect, slender, curved stem enveloped by a single, basal sheath and carrying from below the middle of the stem, a single, narrowly elliptic-oblong, obtuse to subacute, tapering below into a long, narrow tubular sheath that blooms in the later summer on an erect, peduncle with several, distant bracts, the lowermost often leaf-like, rachis .64 to 2" [1.6 to 5 cm] long, decurved, rather laxly several flowered inflorescence with longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying narrowly campanulate, white flowers

Synonyms *Diphylax urceolata (C.B.Clarke) Hook.f. 1889; Habenaria urceolata C.B.Clarke 1889

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 excluded taxa;

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