Published December 31, 1980
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Platanthera hyperborea Lindley 1835
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Description
4. P. hyperborea (L.) Lindley,
Gen. Sp. Orchid. 287 (1835).
Roots cord-like, or forming very slender, conical tubers. Plant 6-35 cm. Leaves 4-7, distributed evenly on the stem, the 2-3 lowest 3-13 x 0-6-2 cm, lanceolate to oblong or ovate-elliptical, obtuse, the others acute and diminishing in size upwards but not contrasting sharply with the lower. Spike (2-)3-9 cm; flowers numerous, greenish, fragrant. Perianth-segments 3-4 mm. Labellum 3-7 mm, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, horizontal. Spur 3-5-4-5 mm, obtuse, curved, shorter than ovary. 2n = 84.
Meadows and moorland.
Iceland. Is. (Arctic and subarctic America.)
Notes
Published as part of D. M. Moore (ed.), 1980, CCIII Orchidaceae, pp. 325-350 in Flora Europaea, Vol 5: Alismataceae to Orchidaceae, Camebridge :Cambridge University Press on page 331, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.215522
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- Is part of
- Book chapter: 10.5281/zenodo.215522 (DOI)
- Book chapter: http://publication.plazi.org/id/AF0D685FFF9FFF9D6B0CFFECFFF8FF80 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Platanthera
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Lindley
- Species
- hyperborea
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Platanthera hyperborea Lindley, 1835 sec. Moore, 1980