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Orchid Species: Platystele compacta

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Platystele compacta is an orchid species identified by (Ames) Ames in 1922.
Genus
Platystele (Pls.)
Grex
compacta
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Ames) Ames
Year
1922
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations of 350 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, ribbed, imbricating sheaths carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate to linear, subacute leaf that is narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base and blooms on a gradually elongating, erect, slender, 2 [5 cm] long including the 1.6 [4 cm] long peduncle, densely many successively flowered, racemose inflorescence arising laterally from the ramicaul with thin floral bracts and is a cluster of tiny yellowish, simultaneous flowers occurring over a long period.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Platystele Pls bulbinella 1910 Schltr.
Add+ Pleurothallis Pths compacta 1930 (Ames) Ames & C.Schweinf.
Add+ Stelis Ste compacta 1908 Ames
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pls. compacta 'Glenn E. Pollard' (1978)
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