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  1. Family: Orchidaceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Platanthera Rich.

      1. Platanthera leptocaulon (Hook.f.) Soó

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Central Nepal to China (SW. Sichuan, NW. Yunnan).

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    China South-Central, East Himalaya, Nepal, Tibet

    Platanthera leptocaulon (Hook.f.) Soó appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Oct 18, 2009 Hooker, J.D. [315], Sikkim K000247392 holotype
    Oct 18, 2009 Hooker, J.D. [s.n], India K000247393 isotype

    First published in Ann. Hist.-Nat. Mus. Natl. Hung. 26: 360 (1929)

    Accepted by

    • Efimov, P.G. (2016). A revision of Platanthera (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae; Orchidaceae) in Asia Phytotaxa 254: 1-233.
    • Jalal, J.S. & Jayanthi, J. (2015). An annotated checklist of the orchids of western himalaya, India Lankesteriana 15: 7-50.
    • Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
    • Lucksom, S.Z. (2007). The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya: 1-984. S.Z.Lucksom, India.
    • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

    Sources

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0