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Platanthera opsimantha is an orchid species identified by Tang & F.T.Wang in 1940. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Platanthera uniformis.
ORIGIN: Found in Guizhou, Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan provinces of China on rocky slopes and mossy ottcrops in dense forests at elevations of 1800 to 3200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a stem with 1 to 2 tubular, basal sheaths and carrying 1 to 2 elliptic to ovate, acute leaves above that blooms in the late summer on an erect, 1.2 to 2.8 [3 to 7 cm] long, to more than 20 flowered inflorescence with 4 lanceolate, acute bracts and lanceolate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.5 inches [1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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