Platystele aculeata Luer 1981 Photo by © Karl Senghas and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria 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 2000 to 2450 meters as a mini-miniature sized, 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, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer through fall on a slender, erect, to 4.4" [to 11 cm] long, loose, flexuous, distichous, successively several to many flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.

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

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