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Orchid Species: Platanthera repens

Kew currently accepted name is Habenaria repens

Platanthera repens is an orchid species identified by (Nutt.) Alph.Wood in 1861. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Habenaria repens.
Genus
Platanthera (P.)
Grex
repens
Parents
Species
Author
(Nutt.) Alph.Wood
Year
1861
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ORIGIN: Found from North Carolina to Florida and west to Arkansas and Texas and then south through Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr. Guyana, Surinam, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina as well as Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago at elevations of 25 to 3000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in standing water as an aquatic orchid in bogs, roadside ditches and canals or as a terrestrial in marshy areas and is the most wideranging Habenaria in the US. It has fig shaped tubers and hairy roots with an erect stem carrying several, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, basally clasping leaves that are reduced to bracts towards the apex of the stem. This orchid can flower at any time of the year and occurs on a erect, densely flowered, terminal raceme with several to many [10 to 50] flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Habenaria Hab repens 1818 Nutt.
Add+ Habenaria Hab maxillaris 1834 Lindl.
Add+ Habenaria Hab nuttallii 1903 Small
Add+ Habenaria Hab palustris 1939 Acuña
Add+ Habenaria Hab pseudorepens 1913 Schltr.
Add+ Habenaria Hab radicans 1866 Griseb.
Add+ Habenaria Hab sceptrodes 1856 Rchb.f.
Add+ Platanthera P foliosa 1834 Brongn. in L.I.Duperrey
Add+ Mesicera Mesicera repens 1825 (Nutt.) Raf.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Hab. repens 'Rockbridge' (2007) Hab. repens 'Surprise' (1978)
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