Platystele stenostachya (Rchb. f.) Garay 1962 SUBGENUS Platystele
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The Thin Inflorescence Platystele
Flower Size 1/16" [3 to 4 mm]
Found as a hot to cool growing, mini-miniature epiphyte from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia occuring at sea level to 1700 meters, with a slender, erect stems partially enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute leaf with the base narrowly cuneate to the petiole and blooms on an erect, slender, to 1/2" [1.2 cm] long, fasciculate, successive opening few flowered, imbricating inflorescence with hyaline bract sheathing at the base and holding the flowers among and just above the leaves occuring mostly in the summer and fall.
Synonyms Humboldtia dubia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia stenostachya (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia dubia (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia stenostachya (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis dubia A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Pleurothallis dubia var. myriantha Schltr. 1922; Pleurothallis lankesteri Rolfe 1914; Pleurothallis minutiflora S. Watson 1888; Pleurothallis myriantha F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; *Pleurothallis stenostachya Rchb. f. 1844; Pleurothallis stenostachya var. lankesteri (Rolfe) Ames 1924
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17:20. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Pleurothallis dubia; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 106. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 as Pleurothallis stenostachya; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1079 Dodson 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988 photo; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Platystele Vol 7 1990; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
Platystele stenostachya (Rchb. f.) Garay 1962 var lankesteri
Plant Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
A color and size form of the previous species.
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