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Orchid Species: Platanthera stenoglossa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Platanthera stenoglossa is an orchid species identified by Hayata in 1914.
ORIGIN: Found in Japan, The Ryukyus and Taiwan in broad leaved forests at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a tuberous, fusiform rootstock giving rise to an erect to ascending stem with a basal, tubular sheath and carrying a single, broadly elliptic to ovate elliptic, obtuse to acute apically, gradually narrowing below into the basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring on a ridged, 2 to 6 [5 to 15 cm] long, laxly 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 3, scattered, scale-like, lanceolate bracts and lanceolate, to ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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