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Orchid Species: Platanthera stenantha
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Platanthera stenantha is an orchid species identified by (Hook.f.) Soó in 1929.
ORIGIN: Found in the Chinese Himalayas, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Yunnan China, and Myanmar in open forests in peaty soils at elevations of 2200 to 3650 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, stout stem with basal acute, tubular sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, distant, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, acute to subacute, sessile, basally claspeing leaves that blooms in the summer and earler fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous, 4.8 to 9.2 [12 to 23 cm] long, laxly 8 to many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, single veined floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 to 0.8 inches [1 to 2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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