Platystele umbellata

Platystele umbellata P.Ortiz, Orquideologia 12(2-3): 136 (1978).

Platystele umbellata P.Ortiz, Photo from Deutsche Orchideen-Gesellschaft e.V. - Gruppe Teutoburger Wald 

its native range is Colombia.

Latin Name: 

Platystele umbellata P.Ortiz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Umbellate Platystele (refers to the inflorescence).

Description: 

With erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-spathulate, rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a very congested, umbellate, simultaneously 5 to 9 flowered, 1.1 to 1.6 cm long including the 1 to 1.5 cm long peduncle, racemose inflorescence arising from above the middle of the ramicaul and has loose, imbricating, oblique floral bracts.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

At elevations of 600 to 1600 m as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring

Flower size:

2.0  mm.

Cultivation:

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

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/652097-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:652097-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/platyumbellatum.htm.

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Platystele_umbellata