Platystele acutilingua Kapuler & Hascall 1966

Photo by Vincent Hascall and JBC The Journal Of Biological Chemistry - Proteoglycans and Orchids: the Work of Vincent Hascall

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Common Name The Acute Lipped Platystele

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in extremely wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with very short ramicauls carrying a single apical, lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 742 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;

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