Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Platanthera bifolia

Platanthera bifolia

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Original – Lesser Butterfly-orchid (Platanthera bifolia), in natural habitat (alvar) in Käesalu, Northwestern Estonia. Species belongs to the category III of protected species in the country.

Reason

High quality and good EV

Articles in which this image appears

Platanthera bifolia

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers

Creator

Ivar Leidus

• Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 10:47, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
• Comment It is pity that the pollinia are not cleary shown in this image. They are the main feature to distinguish this species from its sibling Platanthera chlorantha. It lowers the EV considerably IMO. Lycaon (talk) 10:59, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)