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Tulotis whangshanensis is an orchid species identified by (S.S.Chien) H.Hara in 1955. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Platanthera whangshanensis.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Siberia, Aluetians, Japan, Korea and China in dense forests on slopes, and forest margins along valleys a elevations of 700 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a tuberous, narrowly fusiform to cylindric, elongate rootstock giving rise to a slender stem with a basal, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, oblong elliptic, obtuse, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the late spring through mid summer on a slender, 2.4 to 4.8 [6 to 12 cm] long, sparsely many flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, foliaceous, ovate-lanceolate bracts and narrrowly lanceolate, basalones exceeding the ovary floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.3 inches [0.9 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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