Platystele consobrina Luer 1990 subgenus Platystele Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids.

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard.

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Common Name The Similar Platystele [refers to the similarities to P. misera]

Flower Size 5/16" [7 mm]

Found in Colombia at elevations around 2200 meters as a cold to cool growing, miniature epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute leaf that is cuneate towards the base and gives rise to an erect, subdense, 20" [30 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with several of the many flowers produced simultaneously and all crowded into the apical portion It differs from the similar, Peruvian species, P. misera by having smaller, thinner, narrower, leaves with acute to subacute apices and longer petioles, as well as a longer inflorescence that can bloom with larger flowers for up to a year or more before expiring.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990

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