Platystele edmundoi Pabst1964

SUBGENUS Platystele Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Maria Rita Cabral Orchidstudium

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

Flower Size .15" [4mm]

Found in Para' state of Brazil 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 singel, 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, simultaneously opening, many flwoered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with thin, inflated floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990