Platystele beatricis P.Ortiz 2002

Another Color Photos by © Eric Hunt

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz

Common Name Beatriz' Platystele [Beatriz Escobar de Escobar, Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia - Present]

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia without locality as mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, tri-apiculate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slightly shorter than the leaf, to .92" [2.3 cm] long, simultaneously to 10 flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical umbel.

Similar to P dasyglossa, P ortiziana and P umbellata which all have simultaneously opening umbellate inflorescence but P beatricis differs first in the color with yellow flowers with a darker nearly orange red to purple lip. It differs from P dasyglossa by its longer inflorescence and narrower petals. P beatricis differs from all three other species by its sepals with entire margins, and the shape of its lip which is elongated and incurved apically.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 pg 126 Ortiz 2002 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol #9 2019 photo fide;

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