Platystele stonyx Luer 1990 SUBGENUS Platysetele Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Sharp Lipped Platystele

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 3600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a weak, loose, distichous, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Ibisch & Vasquez 2000; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003