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Orchid Species: Platanthera urceolata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Platanthera urceolata is an orchid species identified by (C.B.Clarke) R.M.Bateman in 2009.
ORIGIN: Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam and Nepal on mossy banks in very moist, evergreen, broad-leaved forests at elevations of 1900 to 4270 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect-curved, slender, glabrous stem with a bladeless basal, tubular sheath and carrying usually a single, narrowly elliptic-oblong, subacute to obtuse, tapering below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, .8 to 1.6 [2 to 4 cm] long, decurved, laxly 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 to 1.4 inches [6 to 9 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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