Platystele microglossa P.Ortiz 1981 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Tiny Tongued Platystele

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolste base leaf that blooms on a suberect, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, filiform, loose, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescnece arising from the ramicaul and has thin floral bracts. ,

Synonyms Platystele gemmula Luer1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Luer 1990 drawing; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo

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