Platystele pyriformis Luer 1990 Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Pear-Shaped Platystele [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size .36" [9 mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia in wet cloud forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, lax, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a oblique 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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