Platystele pedicellaris (Schltr.) Garay 1974

Another Angle Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage

Common Name The Single Flowered Platystele

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize at elevations of 350 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short ramicaul enveloped by several, scarious, whitish sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, broadly ovate to oblanceolate-spatulate, obtuse, retuse and apiculatae apically, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, filiform, 1.2" [2 cm] long, successively few, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis pedicellaris Schltr 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correl 1952 as Masdevallia pedicellaris; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 638 Hagsater, Soto 2002 drawing first photo is better second has the concave lip still checking

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