Platystele ovalifolia (H.Focke) Garay & Dunst. 1961 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Oval Shaped Leaf Platystele

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in El Salvador, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam and Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 450 to 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, mini-miniature sized epiphyte with repent ramicauls carrying a single, apical, thick, fleshy, minutely apiculate, ovate leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, pale green, .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively few flowered.

Synonyms Pleurothallis ovalifolia (H.Focke) Rchb.f. 1861; Pleurothallis rhomboglossa Rchb.f. 1865; Pleurothallis vaginulata Griseb. 1866; *Stelis ovalifolia H.Focke 1849

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Pleurothallis rhomboglossa Rchb.f 1865; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Pleurothallis ovalifolia; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing not/photo hmm; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003

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