I purchased this plant as Pleurothallis crocodiliceps from Equaflor-a a couple years ago. But it turned out to be P. vorator . This species is endemic to Province of Nor Yungas , northern Bolivia (Luer 1989) and Zamora-Chinchipe Province , Ecuador (Jørgensen, P. M. and S. León-Yánez, 1999). The elevation range is 1000-3000m (Jørgensen et al. 2014) while Luer (1989) mentioned 2800m. It seem to grow well at the cool-end of intermediate; max/min daily temperature of 29/18C (84/65F) in the summer and 21/13C (70/55F) in the winter. The flowers are fairly small relative the moderate size of the plant (about 6-8" height), but it is continuously in flower. And when you look at the details of the flower, it is a delightful species. The taller leaves are a little reddish because they happened to be too close to the light. Luer and Vásquez described P. vorator in 1980 ( link to the original description). The scary sounding species epithet, "vorator", in Lat
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