Platystele crinita Luer & Hirtz 1990SUBGENUS Platystele
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website
LATER
Common Name The Long Hairy Fringed Platystele [refers to the hairy Lip]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later fall on a capillary, subcongested, .88" [2.2 cm] long including the .28 to .36" [7 to 9 mm] long peduncle, flexuous, distichous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.
"Characterized by the few flowered , flexuous inflorescence that exceeds the leaf by about half its length, minutely ciliate, ovate, purple sepals, minutely ciliate, narrowly triangular petals and a purple black, elliptical lip with long, white, ciliate hairs. The lip is shallowly concave, but cleft below the middle between a pair of low calli." Luer 1990
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 drawing/photo fide
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