Platystele edmundoi Pabst 1964

Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Maria Rita Cabral and the Orchidstudium website

Drawing

Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Edmund's Platystele [Edmundo Pereira Brazilian Discoverer of Species]

Flower Size .16" [4mm]

Found in Para' state of Brazil in low mountains on the edge of the Amazon basin as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, subdense, 1.2" to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long including the slender, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously opening, many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with thin, inflated floral bracts.

"Numerous, tiny green flowers are produced simultaneously on a slender, slightly crowded inflorescence. The floral parts are basically very simple without a distinguishing peature. P edmundoi is similar to P viridis but the floral parts of the latter are twice the dimensions and the lip is provided with a large, conspiculus glenion. P edmondoi is most similar to P schmidtchenii but the sepals and petals of the later are acute and acuminate." Luer 1990

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;

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