{"id":1424,"date":"2009-12-03T15:15:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T23:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:21:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T01:21:37","slug":"worlds-smallest-orchid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/worlds-smallest-orchid\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Smallest Orchid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery from a jungle high in the Andes wins the title for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/smallest-orchid-in-the-world-is-found-1831104.html\">the world&#8217;s smallest orchid<\/a>. Noted American botanist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loujost.com\/index.htm\">Lou Jost<\/a> has found a new species of Platystele<span style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\"> <\/span> whose flowers are just over 1\/16 inch (2.1 mm) wide. The flowers are so small that the petals are only one cell thick, and are translucent. Another species of Platystele, which is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a> relative, held the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jost works for <a href=\"http:\/\/ecominga.net\/\">Ecuador&#8217;s EcoMinga Foundation<\/a>, a non-profit conservation group dedicated to preserving Ecuador&#8217;s astonishing biodiversity, much of which is still unknown to modern science. He stated that \u201cIt\u2019s a very exciting feeling to find a new species. People think everything has been discovered, but there\u2019s much more to be discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He found the new orchid growing among another orchid&#8217;s roots. He had collected the larger orchid several months earlier, but didn&#8217;t see the miniature one until it bloomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new discovery from a jungle high in the Andes wins the title for the world&#8217;s smallest orchid. Noted American botanist Lou Jost has found a new species of Platystele whose flowers are just over 1\/16 inch (2.1 mm) wide. The flowers are so small that the petals are only one cell thick, and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-in-the-news","category-mini-orchids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}