Platystele psix Luer & Hirtz 1992

Collected Specimen Drawing and Photo by Hirtz & Luer © and the Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Little Bit Platystele

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 450 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, broadly elliptic, subacute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in spring on an erect, loose, disitichous, slender, 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with thin floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Luer 1992 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 347 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;

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