Pleurothallis crocodiliceps

 Pleurothallis crocodiliceps Rchb.f., Bonplandia 3: 72 (1855).

Pleurothallis crocodiliceps Rchb.f., Photo by Koos Peters

its native range is Colombia to Peru.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis crocodiliceps Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Ancipitia crocodiliceps (Rchb.f.) Luer

Humboltia crocodiliceps (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

English Name:

The Crocodile Head Pleurothallis.

Description: 

With slender, erect ramicauls that are sharply ancipitous above the middle and 2 to 3 basal, tubular sheaths and another larger one just below the middle, carrying a single, apical, rigid, coriaceous, ovate, acute, rounded base, cordate, sessile leaf that blooms in the summer to a fascile of solitary, successive flowers, arising through a reclining spathe, 3 mm long, filiform, reclining, ascending to erect inflorescence with a single tubular floral bract carrying a single successive flower.

Distribution:

Colombia. 

Ecological:

As a small sized,warm to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 400 to 3000 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Typus:

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/652618-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:652618-1

https://www.ecuagenera.com/Pleurothallis-crocodiliceps/en

 http://www.orchidspecies.com/pleurspeci.htm.