Platanthera purpurascens (Rydb.) Sheviak & W.F.Jenn.

Purple-petal bog orchid (en)

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 24–80 cm. Leaves few–several, abruptly diverging or sometimes ascending, scattered along stem; blade oblong to ovate or lanceolate, 5.5–16(–28) × 1–4.5 cm. Spikes very lax to dense, flowers sometimes irregularly grouped in fascicles. Flowers resupinate, not showy, green to yellowish green, often suffused with blue or lip sometimes with red; lateral sepals spreading to reflexed; petals ovate-to lance-falcate, margins entire; lip descending to somewhat reflexed or projecting, lanceolate to ovate, sometimes with prominent suborbiculate basal dilation, without basal thickening, 4–8 × 1.5–3 mm; spur strongly clavate to scrotiform, 2–3 mm, apex obtuse; rostellum lobes strongly diverging, very small, rounded, obscure; pollinaria straight; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; viscidia orbiculate to oblong; ovary rather slender to stout, mostly 5–9 mm. 2n = 42 [63].
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-11

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Images

Platanthera purpurascens unspecified picture

Distribution

Platanthera purpurascens world distribution map, present in Colombia and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1185465-2
WFO ID wfo-0000274669
COL ID 4JMZL
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Platanthera purpurascens Limnorchis purpurascens Habenaria purpurascens Platanthera hyperborea var. purpurascens Habenaria hyperborea var. purpurascens