Pleurothallis odobeniceps

Pleurothallis odobeniceps Luer, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 31: 38 (1989).

Pleurothallis odobeniceps Luer; Photo by Kevin Holcomb

its native range is NW. Colombia.

Latin Name: 

Pleurothallis odobeniceps Luer

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Ancipitia odobeniceps (Luer) Luer

English Name:

The Walrus-Headed Pleurothallis (Refers to the shape of the lip).

Description: 

With erect, slender, sharply ancipitous ramicaul with a tubular bract above the base and 2 to 3 at the sheaths base carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, suberect to spreading, ovate, acute, shallowly cordate, sessile leaf with the base rounded that blooms on a fascile of solitary successive flowers arising from a reclining spathe at the base to the leaf with the peduncle 1 to 1.2 mm long and it has a single floral bract.

Distribution:

Colombia.

Ecological:

As a small sized, cold growing epiphyte in wet forests at an elevation of 2280 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Medium

Humidity: Medium

Fertilizer: Weekly

Type Information:

Distribution Of Types: Colombia.

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/938481-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:938481-1

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

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Dendrochilum

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