Platystele alucitae Luer 1980 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Gnat-Like Platystele

Flower Size .15" [3 mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1100 to 2500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying an erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowing cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, slender, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, loose, flexuous, disitchous, successively several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms Platystele cuculligera P.Ortiz 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok

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