Orchidaceae
Platanthera

Platanthera contigua Tang & F.T.Wang

First published in Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol., Bot. 10: 28 (1940)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Arunachal Pradesh to China (NW. Yunnan). It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Distribution

Native to:

China South-Central, East Himalaya

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Efimov, P.G. (2016). A revision of Platanthera (Orchidaceae: Orchidoideae; Orchidaceae) in Asia. Phytotaxa 254: 1-233.
  • Prasad, K. (2023). The genus Platanthera (Orchidaceae) in India with two new species. Rheedea 33: 31-53.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Diphylax contigua.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Prasad, K. (2023). The genus Platanthera (Orchidaceae) in India with two new species. Rheedea 33: 31-53.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0