Platystele densiflora P. Ortiz 1978 SUBGEN Platystele Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower closeup Photo by Jay Pfahl © .

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Common Name The Densly Flowered Platystele

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erecft, coriaceous, ellitpical-obovate, subacute, narrows below gradually into the cuneate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the fall on a strict, congested, to 18" [to 45 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and loose, oblique floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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