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Platystele halbingeriana is an orchid species identified by (R.E.Schult.) Garay in 1974. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Platystele minimiflora.
ORIGIN: Found in Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico as well as Central America and Colombia along rivers at elevations around 100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Super mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte [1 cm total] with short, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and winter on a .4 [1 cm] long including the .32 to .6 [8 to 15 mm] long peduncle, successively, few flowering inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.006 inches [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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