Platystele stonyx Luer 1990
Photos by © Andreas Kay and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Sharp Lipped Platystele
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 3600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a weak, loose, distichous, to 6" [to 15 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long, capillary peduncle, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with more or less hallf the length of the pedicel floral bracts.
" Disitnguished by the microscopically cellular-glandular, long-acuminate sepals, similar, narrowly linear petals and a thick narrowly ovoid, acute lip that is superficially but broadly channeled down the center beyond a basal callus with a prominent glenion." Luer 1990.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 1 Ibisch & Vasquez 2000; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
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