Platystele hirtzii Luer 1979
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Rudy Bachmann and Slogarden"s Web Page
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Hirtz' Platystele [German Engineer and Orchid Collector late 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador in mist forests at elevations of 2000 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ellioptic-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a weak, suberect, arising laterally from the ramicaula, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, rachis, racemose, to 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, distantly and successively single, few flowered inflorescence and has thin, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
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