Platythelys maculata (Hook.) Garay 1977

Plant and Flowers Photos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Spotted Platythelys [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, French Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 200 to 1450 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, cane-like stem carrying green, spotted white leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, sessile, 2.5" [6.25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescnece.

Synonyms Erythrodes maculata (Hook.) Ames 1922; *Physurus maculatus Hook. 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantetarum Tropicarum Plate 207 Dodson 1980;

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