Platystele propinqua (Ames) Garay 1968 SUBGEN Platystele Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Platystele

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceosu, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute narrowly cuneate into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a erect, slender, .8 to 1.3" [2 to 3.2 cm] long, loose, distichous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has thin floral bracts.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis propinqua Ames 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990

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