Platystele dasyglossa P.Ortiz 1979 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Shaggy Tongued Platystele

Flower Size 1/20" [1.5mm]

Found in El Choco Colombia near river banks at elevations around 100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, ribbed,tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petillate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, erect, .4" [1 cm] long, several flowered, subumbellate inflorescence

Synonyms Sarcinula guanacastensis (Ames & C. Schweinf.) Luer 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1108 Dodson 1984; Systematics of Pleurothallis Vol 3 Luer 1986 Icones Pleurothallidinarum VolVII Luer 1990; Orchids From the Serrania Del Baudo Misas 2005

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