- Family:
- Orchidaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Platanthera Rich.
Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb.
[O-EM]
- Habitat
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Woods, meadows and damp heaths.
- Distribution
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Much of Europe, but absent from parts of the north, east and south-west.
- General Description
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Like Platanthera bifolia but flowers more strongly tinged with green, less fragrant, and with slightly larger perianth- segments; spur 18-27 mm, slightly dilated at apex; anther- cells convergent above but widely separated below.
Native to:
Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Krym, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russi, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia
- Gymnadenia chlorantha (Custer) Ambrosi
- Habenaria chlorantha (Custer) Bab.
- Habenaria chloroleuca Ridl.
- Habenaria montana (F.W.Schmidt) T.Durand & Schinz
- Habenaria virescens (K.Koch) Druce
- Orchis chlorantha Custer
- Orchis montana F.W.Schmidt
- Orchis virescens Zollik. ex Gaud.
- Platanthera bifolia subsp. chlorantha (Custer) Rouy
- Platanthera chlorantha var. gselliana (H.Baumann, Künkele & R.Lorenz) Perazza & R.Lorenz
- Platanthera lesbiaca Devillers-Tersch., Devillers, Dedroog, Baeten & Flausch
- Platanthera montana (F.W.Schmidt) Rchb.f.
- Platanthera montana var. gselliana H.Baumann, Künkele & R.Lorenz
- Platanthera virescens K.Koch
- × Pseudanthera breadalbanensis McKean
- English
- Greater Butterfly Orchid
Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ross-Craig, S. [706], Ireland | 1422.000 | No | |||
| Milne-Redhead, E. [5693], United Kingdom | 1423.000 | No | |||
| Young, D.P., United Kingdom | 1424.000 | No | |||
| Sandeman, C. [5], France | 1425.000 | No | |||
| Milne-Redhead, E. [1793], United Kingdom | 1426.000 | No | |||
| Ross-Craig, S. [857], Ireland | 1427.000 | No | |||
| Stevenson, United Kingdom | 19385.000 | No | |||
| United Kingdom | 19386.000 | No | |||
| Sandwith, N.Y. [5368], Spain | 21595.000 | No | |||
| Milne-Redhead, E. [1564], United Kingdom | 21596.000 | No | |||
| United Kingdom | 22573.000 | No | |||
| Turkey | 47423.000 | No | |||
| Pennington, T. [s.n.], France | 75842.000 | No | |||
| Sands, M.J.S. [1158] | Habenaria chloroleuca | 9108.019 | No |
First published in J.C.Mössler & H.G.L.Reichenbach, Handb. Gewächsk. ed. 2, 2: 1565 (1829)
Accepted by
- Castroviejo, S. & al. (eds.) (2005). Flora Iberica 21: 1-366. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid.
- Chilton, L. (2010). Plant list for Lesvos, slightly revised 1998-2009: 1-36. Marengo, Hunstanton, England.
- Curtis, T. & Thompson, R. (2009). The orchids of Ireland: 1-160. National Museums of Northern Ireland, Cultra, Holywood.
- Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Efimov, P.G. (2016). A revision of Platanthera (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae; Orchidaceae) in Asia. Phytotaxa 254: 1-233.
- G.I.R.O.S. (2009). Orchidee d'Italia: 1-303. Il Castello srl, Italy.
- Galán Cela, P. & Gamarra, R. (2003). Check List of the Iberian and Balearic Orchids 2. Anales del Jardin Botanico de Madrid 60: 309-329.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Kühn, R., Pedersen, H.Æ. & Cribb, v (2019). Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean: 1-430. Kew Publishing, England.
- Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
- Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2006). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 2: 1-466. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
- Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Chilton, L. (2010). Plant list for Lesvos, slightly revised 1998-2009: 1-36. Marengo, Hunstanton, England.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. 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
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Kew Living Collection Database
Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. 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
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Kew Science Photographs
Copyright applied to individual images
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Orchideae: e-monocot.org
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