Platystele misera 'Zia's Rachel' CBR/AOS (Lindl.) Garay 1967 subgen Platystele Photo and awarded plant courtesy of Raymond Gabaldon.

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens.

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Common Name The Insignificant Platystele

Flower Size 3/16" [4 mm]

Found in Colombia, Peru and Ecuador at elevations of 1800 to 2900 meters as a miniature, caespitose epiphyte with a stout, erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-obovste, obtuse to rounded leaf that is cuneate towards the petiole and blooms on a filamentous, erect, 5 to 6" [12 to 14 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence that is at least twice and not much more than twice the length of the leaves, flowers open successively and can occur at any time of the year.

Synonyms Humboldtia misera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia misera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; *Pleurothallis misera Lindl. 1859;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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