Platystele oxyglossa (Schltr.) Garay 1974 SUBGEN Platystele

Inflorescence Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Another Flower Photos by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Pointed Lip Playstele

Flower Size 1/8" [3.5 mm]

Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in tropical rainforests, mountain rainforests and elfin forests at elevations of 2 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with very short, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by a single, transparent, tubular sheath and carrying a elliptic to obovate, coriaceous, fleshy, acute to obtuse leaf that is apically tridentate and gradually narrowing below into the cuneate petiole and blooms on an elongate, erect, lax, several [to 10] succesively flowering [to 2 at a time], 5 3/5" to 12 3/5" [14 to 32 cm] long, filiform inflorescence arising from the base of the leaf with a tubular bract and below the middle and infundibuliform, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Platystele brasiliensis Brade 1951; Platystele lancilabris var. oxyglossa (Schltr.) Schltr. ?; Pleurothallis lancilabris var. oxyglossa (Schlechter) C. Schweinf. 1938; Platystele pygmaea (Hoehne) Pabst 1956; Platystele schulzeana (Schltr.) Garay 1974; *Pleurothallis oxyglossa Schltr. 1912; Pleurothallis pygmaea Hoehne 1933; Pleurothallis schulzeana Schltr. 1918;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959as P lancilabris; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 205 Dodson 1980 as Platystele lancilabris; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1078 Dodson 1984 as Platystele lancilabris; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 86 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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