Platystele jungermannioides (Schltr.) Garay 1974

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez ©

Common Name The Jungermannia-Like Platystele [The Moss-Like {Jungermannia - Jungerman German Botanist 1600's} Platystele]

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama in lower cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature [said to be the smallest in the world], hot growing epiphyte with ascending, rudimentary ramicauls enveloped basally by a single loose sheath and carrying a single apical, suberect, fleshy, elliptical, subacute, gradually becoming cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a .2" [5mm] long, loose, successively 2 to 3 flowered, racemose inflorescence.,

Synonyms *Pleurothallis jungermannioides Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990

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