Platystele filamentosa Luer 1990
SUBGENUS Platystele
Photo by Bruno Larsen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Thread-Shaped Platystele [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Narinodepartment of Colombia in wet forests without locational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a filiform, erect, weak, to 2.4" [6 cm] long including the .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, distichous, distantly and successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally on the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;
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