Platanthera integrilabia |
Platanthera peramoena |
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monkeyface, white fringeless orchid |
purple fringeless orchid |
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Habit | Plants 50–80 cm. | Plants 35–105 cm. |
Leaves | 2(–3), spreading to ascending, on basal portion of stem, abruptly reduced to bracts distally; blade lanceolate to elliptic, 12–23 × 1–3.2 cm. |
2–5, spreading to ascending, scattered along stem, gradually reduced to bracts distally; blade lanceolate, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, or oblance-oblong, 7–27 × 1.2–5 cm. |
Spikes | rather lax. |
lax to dense. |
Flowers | resupinate, showy, white; lateral sepals reflexed; petals oblong, margins entire; lip porrect, spatulate to lance-spatulate, without basal thickening, 10–15 × 2.5–4 mm, margins slightly lacerate to subentire; spur slenderly cylindric, scarcely clavate, 35–60 mm; rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular; rostellum lobes slenderly curving forward, slightly spreading, angular-elongate, long; pollinaria with stalks curved forward; pollinia remaining enclosed in anther sacs; viscidia orbiculate; ovary slender, ca.16–22 mm. |
resupinate, showy, rose-purple; lateral sepals somewhat reflexed; petals oblong-linear to spatulate, distally crenate to entire; lip descending to somewhat porrect, deeply 3-lobed, without basal thickening, 11–20 × 12–23 mm, distal margins of lobes dentate-lacerate, rarely nearly entire, lateral lobes narrowly cuneate, middle lobe broadly cuneate-flabellate, emarginate to 2-fid; spur clavate, 20–30 mm; rostellum lobes directed forward, spreading, angular; pollinaria straight to geniculate; pollinia directed forward; viscidia orbiculate; ovary slender, 13–23 mm. |
Platanthera integrilabia |
Platanthera peramoena |
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Phenology | Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug. | Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug(–Oct). |
Habitat | Wet wooded flats, seeping slopes, marshes, sphagnum bogs | Alluvial forests, wet wooded flats, stream banks, seeping slopes, marshes, moist prairies, old fields and pastures, ditches, thickets |
Elevation | mostly 100–700 m (mostly 300–2300 ft) | 0–800 m (0–2600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; GA; KY; MS; NC; SC; TN
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AL; AR; DE; GA; IL; IN; KY; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; PA; SC; TN; VA; WV
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. The description of Platanthera integrilabia is based on a limited sample and is likely too restrictive. Flowers of this species are nocturnally sweet-scented. The vegetative habit is distinctive, with leaves restricted to the base of the stem and a relatively few-flowered inflorescence borne atop a tall bracted scape. In addition to the normal tuberoid, roots often enlarge distally to form bud-bearing tuberoids at a marked distance from the parent stem, giving rise to diffuse clonal colonies. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 568. | FNA vol. 26, p. 565. |
Parent taxa | Orchidaceae > subfam. Orchidoideae > tribe Orchideae > subtribe Orchidinae > Platanthera | Orchidaceae > subfam. Orchidoideae > tribe Orchideae > subtribe Orchidinae > Platanthera |
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Synonyms | Habenaria blephariglottis var. integrilabia, Habenaria correlliana | Habenaria peramoena |
Name authority | (Correll) Luer: Native Orchids U.S. & Canada, 186. (1975) | (A. Gray) A. Gray: Manual, 473. (1848) |
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