Platanthera xizangensis X.H.Jin, S Yan & T Pandey 2025

Photo by © X.H.Jin, S Yan & T Pandey and Phytotaxa 693(4):287-296 X.H.Jin, S Yan & T Pandey 2025

Common Name The Oval Lip Platanthera

Flower Size

Found in Xizang Automonous region of China in humid alpine meadows, at elevations around 3790 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with an oblong-fusiform, stoloniferous, densely hairy throughout tubers giving rise to an erect stem provided with 1 to 2 basal sheaths and carrying 2, subopposite , lanceoalte, midvein depressed, margin entire to slightly wavy, acute to subacute apically, leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, subsecund, provided with 1 to 2 foliaceous, lanceolate, subacute, sterile bracts, rachis 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, subdensely 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, subobtuse apically, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish green, partially open, resupinate flowers.

"Platanthera xizangensis is morphologically close to P. milinensis by sharing partially open, spurless, greenish flowers, however, it differs from it in having a lip with basal lateral lobes, the fleshy lip apex, and the obtuse, subsecund, lax inflorescence, and the two subopposite, lanceolate leaves." X.H.Jin, S Yan & T Pandey 2025

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytotaxa 693(4):287-296 X.H.Jin, S Yan & T Pandey 2025

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