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Herbarium specimen: Platanthera chlorantha

Taxon:Orchidaceae: Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb. ("Greater Butterfly-orchid")
named by Victor Samuel Summerhayes
Filed in taxon folder:Orchidaceae: Platanthera chlorantha (Custer) Rchb. ("Greater Butterfly-orchid")
Collected by:Dr Peter Shaw Green
Collection date:10/6/1951
Locality:Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Southam, SP46, Grid Ref 420634. Alt: c350 feet. Under hawthorn bush on old colonised bank of loimestone quarry.
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Platanthera chlorantha herbarium specimen from Southam, VC38 Warwickshire in 1951 by Dr Peter Shaw Green.
fruits/flowers:buds/immature flowers
notes:Lusus tricalcarata Murr / Schulze [?]. Flowers green, smaller than normal type, ovary not twisted through 180 deg. One plant among abundant normal ones.

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Documented by oldnick on 23rd November 2009.

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