Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay

Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 21: 251 (1967).

Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay, Photo by Wiel Driessen

Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay, Photo by Norman Steller Rodríguez

its native range is Costa Rica to Panama.

Latinh Name: 

Platystele microtatantha (Schltr.) Garay 

Synonym:

Pleurothallis microtatantha Schltr.

Pleurothallis perparva Standl. & L.O.Williams

English Name:

The Small Flowered Platystele.

Description: 

Erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly-elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a erect, slender, .8" [2 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, distichous, flexuous, subdense, successively several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with only 1 to 2 flowers open at any one time arising from low on the ramicaul, and has thin floral bracts.

Distribution:

Costa Rica, Panamá.

Ecological:

At elevations of 1400 to 2000 m as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and early spring.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

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