Pleurothallis saurocephala Lodd. 1833 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Luiz Filipe Varella
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by © Ishmael Nilton Vischi.
Drawing by © Cogniaux
Common Name The Lizard Head Pleurothallis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southern Minas Gerais state of Brazil in primary cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect, basally thickened, apically furrowed ramicauls enveloped by 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying an erect, stiff, elliptic, narrowly elongate, conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a descending, 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long, 12 to 18 flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe at the base of the leaf.
Synonyms Acianthera saurocephala (Lodd.) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001; Humboldtia saurocephala (Lodd.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Cab. 16: t. 1571 Loddigges 1830
Flora Brasiliensis Vol III Part 4:398 Martius, Cogniaux 1893 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo good;
Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4:246 Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001 as Acianthera saurocephala;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and Its Orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehawer 2008 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as P sarcocephalus drawing fide;
Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Acianthera saurocephala photo fide
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