Platystele resimula Luer & Hirtz 1990
Photo by © Wiel Driessen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The The Upturned Nose Platystele [refers to the lip shape]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador and Cochle and Chiriqui province of Panama in wet cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a filiform, erect, to 3.2" [8 cm] long including the filiform .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long peduncle, distichous, distantly and successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has a thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bract.
"Similar to P rhinocera with both having the similar, thick, obovoid lip with the upturned apex but distinguished by the larger flowers with long-attenuate sepals. The Panamanian specimens have microscopic cilia on the sepals and petals." LUer 1990
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide
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