Platystele ximenae Luer & Hirtz 1991 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©

Common Name Ximena's Platystele [Mrs Ximena Hirtz, wife of Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast - Current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found from Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1250 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, loose, flexuous, disitchous, successively several flowered, to 2 3/4" [to 7 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Vol 8 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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