Platystele argentosa

 Platystele argentosa Luer & R.Escobar, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 38: 22, pl. 6 (1990).

Platystele argentosa Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is Colombia (Antioquia).

Latin Name: 

Platystele argentosa Luer & R.Escobar 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Silvery Platystele (refers to the grey-green leaves).

Description: 

It is found low down on tree trunks with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, gray-green, with minute crystiline spots, obovate, obtuse, basally narrowing into a broad conduplicate petiolate base leaf and blooms fall, winter and spring on a very congested, successively many single flowered, racemose, to 1.5 cm long including the 7 to 10 mm long peduncle within the sulcus of the petiole, slender inflorescence with thin floral bracts.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

At elevations of 1200 to 1450 m as a miniature sized warm growing epiphyte. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

2.5 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.

Typus:

Collector Team:

A.Cogollo, J.G.Ramirez 3137

Type Herbaria:

holotype JAUM

isotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Antioquia (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/283269-2

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283269-2

http://www.orchidspecies.com/goodvittata.htm.

http://www.orchidspecies.com/platyargentosa.htm.

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Goodyera_vittata