Platystele schneideri P.Ortíz 1979 SUBGENUS Platystele Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard

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Common Name Schneider's Platystele [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast 20th cen]

Flower Size 1/8" [.3 cm]

Found in Cundinamarca, Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute leaf that is cuneate into the petiole and blooms in the summer on a subdense, flexuous, distichous, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with 2 to 3 flowers open at a time and thin floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991

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