Platystele viridis Luer 1983

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Common Name The Green Platystele

Flower Size .28" [7mm]

Found in Ecuador without collection data as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, obtuse, apiculate apically, narrowing and cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, , .25 to 4" [7 to 10 mm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul and has thin,shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VII Systematics of Platystele Luer 1990 drawing fide;

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