Pleurothallis caniceps Luer 1982 SUBGENUS Ancipitia SECTION Ancipitia Luer 1986
Photo by Weil Dreissen and The Orchidees du Nord Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
Common Name The Dog Head Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in very wet forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, narrowly ancipitous ramicauls carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a .8 to .92" [2 to 2.3 cm] long peduncle, arising through a spathe, .8 to .92" [2 to 2.3 cm] long pedicel, single flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgen Ancipita, Scopula and Trisetella Luer 1989 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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