Platystele propinqua (Ames) Garay 1968 SUGENUS Platystele
Photos by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Drawing by Carl Luer.
Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Platystele
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1800 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, erect, coriaceosu, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a erect, slender, .88 to 1.28" [2.2 to 3.7 cm] long including the .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long peduncle, loose, distichous, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Readily distinguished from P oxyglossa by the broader petals and larger lip." Luer 1990
Synonyms *Pleurothallis propinqua Ames 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; * Schedul. Orch. 6: 68-69. Ames 1923 as Pleurothallis propinqua; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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