Restrepia aberrans Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Ecmeles Luer 1996 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Aberrant Restrepia [refers tothis flowers having features that are in no other in the genus]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 350 to 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 5-6 thin, whitish, loose, oblique, acute, compressed, more or less imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, cuneate to rounded below and contracted into the twisted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in spring on a slender,1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, single, produced successively in a fascicle, flowered inflorescence with thin, tubular floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Luer 1996 drawing good;

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