Platystele jesupiorum Luer 1981
Photo by Ron Parsons
Inflorescence Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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, cool 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 including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying to 3 flowers open at any one time.
"Characerized by the petiolate leaves, a long, loose, successively flowered raceme, acuminate, ciliate petals and a lp with an uncinate apex." Luer 1990
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 drawing fide/photo ok;
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