Platanthera leptocaulon (Hook.F.) Tang & F.T.Wang

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Platanthera

Characteristics

Plants 19-25 cm tall. Rootstock creeping, cylindric, stoloniferous. Stem erect, with 1 or 2 sheaths at base, 1-or rarely 2-leaved. Leaf cauline, linear to linear-oblong, 3.5-8.5 × 0.7-1.4 cm, base clasping, apex acute to subobtuse. Peduncle slender, with 1-3 foliaceous, linear-lanceolate bracts; rachis 4.5-9 cm, laxly 3-6-flowered; floral bracts erect, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 10-12 mm, apex acuminate. Flowers yellowish green; pedicel and ovary cylindric-fusiform, ca. 10 mm. Dorsal sepal erect and forming a hood with petals, sublanceolate, ca. 6 × 2-2.2 mm, 3-veined, margin ciliate, apex obtuse; lateral sepals reflexed, lanceolate, slightly oblique, ca. 6 × 2-2.1 mm, 3-veined, margin ciliate, apex obtuse. Petals triangular-lanceolate, oblique, ca. 6 × 2 mm, fleshy, 1-veined, apex acute; lip ligulate-lanceolate, 5.5-8 × 1-1.3 mm, thickened, entire, apex obtuse; spur pendulous, cylindric, 12-20 mm, usually much longer than ovary, slender. Column erect, short; staminodes subelliptic, small; anther locules nearly parallel; pollinia ellipsoid, with short caudicles and suborbicular viscidia; rostellum erect, short; stigma lobes separate, raised, elliptic-oblong, extending on either side of mouth of spur. Fl. Aug-Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.17 - 0.21
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Distribution

Platanthera leptocaulon world distribution map, present in China and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:651805-1
WFO ID wfo-0000274547
COL ID 4JMY3
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Synonyms

Platanthera leptocaulon Platanthera stenophylla Habenaria leptocaulon