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Platanthera chlorantha (Cust.) Rchb. (Greater Butterfly-orchid)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Platanthera chlorantha Plant 19 June 2003 Oxon England 8
Platanthera chlorantha Plant 20 June 1982 North Wiltshire England 3
Platanthera chlorantha Plant 18 June 1977 North Hampshire England 1
Platanthera chlorantha Plant 10 June 1975 East Sussex England 4

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008 Is spur length of Platanthera species in the British Isles adaptively optimized or an evolutionary red herring?

Platanthera chlorantha may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
ORCHIDACEAE
(orchids)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Platanthera chlorantha:

flower flower is pollenated or fertilised by adult Autographa bractea - Gold Spangle (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) UK/Ireland Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008
Photos flower flower is pollenated or fertilised by adult Autographa gamma - Silver Y (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) UK/Ireland Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008
Photos flower flower is pollenated or fertilised by adult Autographa pulchrina - Beautiful Golden Y (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) UK/Ireland Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008
Photos flower flower is pollenated or fertilised by adult Sphingidae - hawk or sphinx moths (Lepidoptera) Foreign Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008

Platanthera chlorantha may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
LILIIDAE
(monocotyledonous flowering plants)
ORCHIDACEAE
(orchids)

References

Bateman, R.M. & Sexton, R., 2008 Is spur length of Platanthera species in the British Isles adaptively optimized or an evolutionary red herring?

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