Platanthera chapmanii (Small) Luer

Chapman’s fringed orchid (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Platanthera

Characteristics

Plants 30–77 cm. Leaves 1–3, spreading to ascending, abruptly or gradually reduced to bracts distally; blade linear-lanceolate or lanceolate to lance-oblong, 15–26 × 1–3 cm. Spikes rather dense. Flowers resupinate, showy, orange to pale dull yellow; dorsal sepal entire or emarginate; lateral sepals reflexed; petals linear to obovate, apically fringed to merely lacerate-dentate; lip porrect, ovate to ovate-orbiculate, without basal thickening, 5–10 × 4–9 mm, margins deeply filiform-fringed; spur slenderly cylindric, 8–17 mm; rostellum lobes directed downward, distally retrorse, digitate; pollinaria with stalks recurved; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; viscidia orbiculate to suborbiculate; ovary slender, 10–19 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

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Distribution

Platanthera chapmanii world distribution map, present in Georgia and United States of America

Conservation status

Platanthera chapmanii threat status: Vulnerable

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:289838-2
WFO ID wfo-0000274373
COL ID 4JMW2
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Platanthera chapmanii Blephariglottis chapmanii Habenaria chapmanii