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Orchid Species: Platanthera leptocaulon
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Platanthera leptocaulon is an orchid species identified by (Hook.f.) Soó in 1929.
ORIGIN: Found in southwestern Sichuan, northwest Yunnan China, the eastern Himalayas and Nepal in mixed forests and on marshy streambanks in open scrub at elevations of 2400 to 3600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a slender, glabrous, bracteate above stem with 2 to 3, basal, imbricating, lanceolate, acute to acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, linear-oblong, acute, long clasping base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, glabrous, [1.4 to 2.8 [3.5 to 7 cm] long, laxly 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.22 to 0.27 inches [6 to 9 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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