Platystele viridis Luer 1983
Photo by © Duane McDowell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Green Platystele
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, loose, thin, ribbed sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly obovate, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a slender, erect, to 8" [20 cm] long including the 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long peduncle, subdense, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Characterized by the large plant, witha tall inflorescence of numerous, simultaneous, comparatively large, green flowers. The sepals are ovate, the laterals partially connate and the lip is oblong and obtuse with a large, shallow glenion." 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 photo fide
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