Platystele perpusilla (Rchb.f.) Garay 1974
Drawing by © Franco Pupulin
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Very Small Platystele [refers to the plant size]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 1300 to 1450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, imbricating sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, distichous, filiform, to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long overall, rachis .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, loose, distichous, simutaneously opening, several flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Humboltia perpusilla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Pleurothallis perpusilla Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as Pleurothallis perpusilla; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide to the drawing only; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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