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Orchid Species: Platanthera praeclara

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Platanthera praeclara is an orchid species identified by Sheviak & M.L.Bowles in 1986.
Genus
Platanthera (P.)
Grex
praeclara
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Sheviak & M.L.Bowles
Year
1986
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ORIGIN: Found in Manitoba, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Oklahoma in wet praires, fen and open plains.

DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with 2 to 5, cauline, lanceolate, keeled, reduced in size to bracts towards the inflorescence that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, 16 to 38 [40 to 95 cm] long, loosely to densely 10 to 24 flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Fimbriella Fimbriella praeclara 2000 (Sheviak & M.L.Bowles) Szlach. & Rutk.
Add+ Blephariglottis Bg praeclara 2009 (Sheviak & M.L.Bowles) Baumbach & Lückel
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