Platystele jesupiorum Luer 1981 SUBGENUS Platysetele Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Jesups' Platystele [American Orchid Enthusiasts current]

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes in wet montane forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a weak, suberect, loose, lightly flexuous, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin floral bracts and carrying to 3 flowers open at any one time.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;