Platanthera hyperborea Lindley 1835

• Main Author: D. M. Moore (ed.)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1980
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Plantae; Tracheophyta; Liliopsida; Asparagales; Orchidaceae; Platanthera; Platanthera hyperborea; Iceland; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6283109; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/53341027FF99FF9B687CFA87FC47F918

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.) 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