Pleurothallis lacerticeps [Luer & Toscano] in ed.

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

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Common Name The Lizard Head Pleurothallis [refers to the appearance of the flower]

Flower Size .4” [1 cm]

Found in Bahia state of Brazil without locational data as a miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath and another at the base and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, suffused with purple beneath, elliptical, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, long-pedicellate, from near the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long,to 8" [20 cm] long overall, racemose, a loose, flexuous, successively single, few to several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts

Synonyms Pabstiella lacerticeps Luer & Toscano, Harvard Pap. Bot. 16: 374 (2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 374 2011 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) FROM BRAZIL Carlyle A. Luer1 and A. L. V. Toscano de Brito drawing fide;

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