Platystele repens (Ames) Garay 1974 Photo by J & L Orchids and their J & L Orchids Website

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Common Name The Creeping Platystele [refers to the habit of the plant]

Flower Size .2" [6 mm]

Found in Belize and Guatemala in lowland forests at elevations of 300 to 350 metrers as a hot growing epiphyte with suberect, ascending, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, subdense, .8" [2 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorecescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin floral bract.

Synonyms *Pleurothallis repens Ames 1908; Specklinia repens (Ames) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo;

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