Platystele reflexa Sophronitis This 'dark' form is particularly

This 'dark' form is particularly prized by collectors for its deeper pigmentation and the extraordinarily long tails characteristic of the species

fragrant flowers on short inflorescences

Flourishing in high-altitude

alagense is a mini-miniature sized

This includes suitable light

Platystele reflexa Sophronitis This 'dark' form is particularlyA cloud forest, cool growing, small, caespitose epiphyte found at an elevation of 1300 to 1650 meters in Ecuador with an erect, stout ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 short, ribbrd imbricating sheaths with a single apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, epetiolate, narrowly ovoid, semiterete to fusiform, acute leaf that blooms on an erect, slender, . 92 to 1 [2. 3 to 2. 5 cm] long incl, racemose, successively many flowered inflorescence with hyaline bracts