Platystele pubescens Luer 1984 Photo by © Joel Mc Neil and his P Base Orchid Photo Website

Full Shade Cool Summer and again Winter

Common Name The Hairy Platystele

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Pichincha Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations around 1300 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, loose, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and winter on a filiform, weak, suberect, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, loose, distichous, flexuous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.

Synonyms

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

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