Platystele enervis Luer 1984 SUBGENUS Platystele

Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATE THROUGH

Common Name or Meaning The Nerveless Platystele [refers to the nerveless sepals and petals]

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1650 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base and blooms in the late winter through fall on a weak, loose, suberect, distichous, flexuous, filiform, 5.2" [13 cm] long including the .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from high on the ramicaul with thin floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;

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