Platystele umbellata P. Ortiz 1978 SUBGENUS Platystele Photo by © Jay Pfahl.

Another Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Umbellate Platystele [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size 1/32" [2mm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-spathulate, rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a very congested, umbellate, simultaneously 5 to 9 flowered, 5.8" [1.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from above the middle of the ramicaul and has loose, imbricating, oblique floral bracts..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 12 No 2/3 1977/8 photo/drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990 drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as Platystele sp #353 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo hmm; Orquideeologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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