Platystele densiflora P. Ortiz 1978 SUBGENUS Platystele
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by Jay Pfahl © .
Type Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz
Common Name The Densly Flowered Platystele
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erecft, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrows below gradually into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the fall on a strict, congested, to 18" [to 45 cm] long including the 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and loose, oblique floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/8 photo/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2008 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #1 2010 as P densiflora var xanthina photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo fide; A Compendium Of Miniature Orchid Species Vol 2 Parsons & Gerritson 2013 photo fide;
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