Platystele misasiana P.Ortiz 1981 SUBGENUS Platystele
Photos by © Duane Mc Dowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Misas' Platystele [Colombia Discoverer of Species Current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, immbricating tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, subdense, distichous, to 3.2" [to 8 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with tubular floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 #3 Ortiz 1981 photo/drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing ok [seem to be missing short ciliate margins on the petals and sepals]; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok
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