Platystele megaloglossa C.A.Luer & R.Escobar R. 1986 SUBGEN Platystele Photo courtesy of Steve Johnson.

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Common Name The Giant Lipped Platystele

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte in forests at elevations around 2050 meters with short, erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheathsand carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring on a weak, suberect, loose, flexuous, distichous, successively many flowered, racemose, to 5.2" [to 13 cm] long inflorescence that arises laterally from the ramicaul and has thin, oblique floral bracts .

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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