Platystele gerristsenianum Doucette, Gerritsen & Portilla 2016
Photos by © Kevin Holcomb and his Flickr Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Alphonso Doucette and The AOS Bulletin Website
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Common Name Mary Gerritsen's Platstele
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ecuador without locality as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with terete ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular, papaery sheaths and carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse, tridenticulate apex, narrowing below into the sulcate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a flexuous, peduncle filiform, glabrous, .68 to .72" [1.7 to 1.8 cm] long, rachis filiform, glabrous, [2.2 to 5.2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with tubular, membraneosus, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to P propinqua and P taylori but differs in the dimensions of the sepals and lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;
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