Pleurothallis odobeniceps, La Planada Nature Reserve, Colombia

Flower size: 5mm. Found in the orchid research garden at La Planada Nature Reserve.

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Christine Young

Lion

It looks like it has a fancy mustache:-{D Posted 6 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  It's funny you say that, because I did not see it and was wondering where the common name came from :) Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Oh, I didn't even notice the common name. I guess the side petals resemble tusks? Maybe it should be renamed as: Mustached-Walrus Pleurothallis. Posted 6 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      For the more obscure orchid species I almost always end up here:
      http://www.orchidspecies.com/
      
      The common names they use are quite creative, and I don't usually see the same name anywhere else, so part of me thinks they're just making them up :) Posted 6 years ago
    2. 1. Christine Young
        
        Lion
        
        That would be hilarious! Posted 6 years ago

The Walrus-Headed Pleurothallis

Found as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte in Colombia in wet forests at an elevation of 2280 meters 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 1/8" [1 to 1.2 mm] long.. more

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Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions

Species identified by Ferdy Christant