Restrepia aberrans Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Ecmeles Luer 1996

Another Angle Photos by C Ron Griesbeck courtesy of Yoshi Nomura and his Not So Green Thumb OrchidPages

Common Name The Aberrant Restrepia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Panama at elevations around 350 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

I am not convinced that this is a correct determination so use with caution.

Synonyms

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

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