Platystele argentosa Luer & R. Escobar 1990 SUBGEN Platystele

Plant Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Silvery Platystele [refers to the grey-green leaves]

Flower Size 1/10th" [2.5 mm]

Found in Antioquia Colombia at elevations of 1200 to 1450 meters as a miniature sized warm growing epiphyte that is found low down on tree trunks with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, gray-green, with minute crystiline spots, obovate, obtuse, basally narrowing into a broas conduplicate petiole and blooms on a very congested, successively many single flowered, racemose, to 3/8" [1 cm] long, slender inflorescence with thin floral bracts..

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998;

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