Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz

 Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz, Orquideologia 14: 22 (-24), fig (1979).

Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz, Photo by Ian Fuller

Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz, Photo by Gerrit Verhellen

its native range is Colombia to Ecuador

Latinh Name: 

Platystele orectoglossa P.Ortiz

Synonym:

No

English Name:

The Extended Tongue Platystele.

Description: 

with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a loose, flexuous, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .12 to .28" [3 to 9 mm] long suberect peduncle, successively few [2 to 3 at a time] to many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally on tha ramicaul.

Distribution:

Colombia, Ecuador.

Ecological:

In cool damp cloud forests at elevations of 1750 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

8.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

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.

Type:

Collector Team:

R.Escobar 1053

Type Herbaria:

holotype COL

Distribution Of Types:

Antioquia (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)