Platystele enervis Luer 1984
TYPE Photo by Kilian Zuchan and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Nerveless Platystele [refers to the nerveless sepals and petals]
Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador in montane cloud forests at elevations around 1650 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base and blooms in the late winter through fall on a weak, suberect, arising laterally from high on the ramicaul, peduncle filiform, .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] long , rachis 4 to 4.6" [10 to 11.5 cm] long, loose, distichous, flexuous, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Most notable for the extremely small flowers produced on a hair-like flexuous raceme much longer than the long-petiolate base leaves. The sepals and petals are less than .04" [1 mm] long and without any trace of a mid-vein." Luer 1984
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 55: 200. Luer & Vasquez 1984; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;
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