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Platanthera camtschatica

(Platanthera camtschatica

(Cham. et Schltr.) Makino)

A plant with narrow-cylindrical tubers up to
10 cm long and up to 8 mm thick and a strong
fleshy dense leafy stem 30–60 cm high. Leaves
are rounded or broadly coelliptic, obtuse, alternate,
6–15 cm long and 3–9 cm wide, wavy along the
edge. The flowers are zygomorphic pink-violet
(rarely white), collected in a dense raceme up to 20
cm long and 4 cm wide.
Sporadically found on Sakhalin Island (environs
of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and in all administrative
regions, except for Okhinsky, Nogliksky and
Tymovsky), Moneron Island, as well as on the
Kuril Islands: Shumshu, Paramushir , Simushir,
Ketoy, Urup, Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan. In the
Russian Far East, it is found in the Khabarovsk and
Kamchatka regions. Outside the Russian Federation
— in Japan (Hokkaido and Honshu Islands).

Platanthera maximowicziana

(Platanthera maximowicziana Schltr. (Syn.

Platanthera mandarinorum Rchb. f. subsp.

maximowicziana (Schltr.) K. Inoue)

Up to 20 cm high, with a straight stem
and oblong-ovate tubers. Leaves are simple,
whole, 2 in number, the lower one is up to 9 cm
long, narrow-ovate, whole-edged, the upper
one is smaller. The flowers are zygomorphic,
yellowish-white, in a loose raceme up to 6 cm
long.
In Russia, it grows on the northern border
of its range only on the Kuril Islands:
Chirpoy, Brother Chirpoev, Urup and Iturup,
indicated for Shikotan. Outside the Russian
Federation — in Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu in
the mountains).

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