Platystele acicularis Luer & Hirtz 1990 Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Sharply Pointed Platystele

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 2250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer through fall on a slender, suberect, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, loose, flexuous, distichous, successively many flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has an oblique floral bract.

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

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