Platanthera carnosilabris

Platanthera carnosilabris is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae, native to south-central China (north-west Yunnan).^[1]

Platanthera carnosilabris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Genus:	Platanthera
Species:	P. carnosilabris
Binomial name
Platanthera carnosilabris (Tang & F.T.Wang) X.H.Jin, Schuit. & W.T.Jin[1]
Synonyms[1]
Herminium carnosilabre Tang & F.T.Wang

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Tsin Tang and Fa Tsuan Wang in 1940, as Herminium carnosilabre.^[1] A molecular phylogenetic study in 2014 found that it was deeply embedded in a clade of Platanthera species, and so it was transferred to that genus as Platanthera carnosilabre.^[2]