Pleurothallis lacerticeps [Luer & Toscano] in ed. SUBGENUS Effusae Luer 2000

TYPE Drawing of Pabstiella lacerticeps 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,

" This species from Bahia is characterized by short-stemmed leaves and a long, loose, long-pedicellate inflorescence similar to that of P arcuata and its numerous relatives. It differs from P. arcuata by glabrous sepals and an elliptical lip without lateral lobes, that is somewhat narrowed toward the base. A pair of low, minutely papillose calli is present above the middle, and the rest of the rounded apex is microscopically papillose. The base is truncate and minutely lobulate at the corners." Luer & Toscano 2011

Synonyms Pabstiella lacerticeps Luer & Toscano 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Harv. Pap. Bot. 16(2): 374. Luer & Toscano 2011 as Pabstiella lacerticeps drawing fide;

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