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Pleurothallis restrepioides Lindl. 1837 SUBGENUS Elongatia SECTION Elongatia Luer 1986

Flower detail of lip and column

Flower detail Side View

Inflorescence in situ Cundinamarca 7/20 2700 meters

Plant in situ Cundinamarca 7/20 on canyon rock walls 2700 meters

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TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Restrepia-Like Pleurothallis

Flower Size more than 1 1/2" [3.7 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at altitudes of 800 to 2900 meters as a medium sized, cold to warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes is with a short rhizome, and an elongate, often pendent ramicaul enveloped basally by 4, elongate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, apical, elliptic, thick, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on several at once, arising from a spathe at the base of the leaf and having many acuminate, loose bracts, apical, racemose, suberect, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying foul smelling, pendant flowers that are held all to one side of the inflorescence and all held well above the leaves.

"Pleurothallis restrepioides is a handsome species with large, glossy, elliptical leaves surpassed by one or two racemes of several to many large, purple-spotted flowers with the protruding apical half of the lip tubular from the revolute sides. The margins of the lip above the middle are minutely denticulate, below the middle the margins are erect, smooth and membranous." Luer 1996

Synonyms Elongatia restrepioides (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboldtia fritillaria (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia fritillaria (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia reichenbachiana Kuntze 1891; Humboltia restrepiodes (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia roezlii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis atroviolacea F. Lehm. & Kraenzl 1899; Pleurothallis fritillaria Rchb. f. 1855; Pleurothallis laurifolia Rchb.f 1854; Pleurothallis roezlii Rchb.f 1876; Stelis restrepioides (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 356 Lindley 1837;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 74 Lindley 1842 as P macrophylla nom. illeg.;

Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 240 Rchb.f 1855 as P frittilaria;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia restrepioides;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 667 Kuntze 1891 as Humboltia fritillaria;

Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 438 F Lehm & Kraenzl. 1899 as P atroviolacea;

AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 as P fritillaria drawing plant only;

Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as P fritillaria;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 254 Dodson 1980 drawing = P macrophylla;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Systematics of Lepanthes subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis subgen Aenigma, subgen Elongata, Subgen Kraenzlinnella Luer 1994