!Restrepia antennifera Kunth 1816 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton

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Common Name The Antennae Carrying Restrepia

Flower Size 2"+ [5 cm+]

This is the type species for the genus

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 2000 to 3100 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing, tufted epiphyte with erect stems enveloped basally by 3 to 4 purple spotted, sheathing bracts and carrying a single, apical, erect or erect-spreading, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or rounded, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, axillary, terete, slender, glabrous, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a large [for the genus] flower.

Synonyms Pleurothallis ospinae R.E.Schult. 1957; Restrepia antennifera subsp. hemsleyana (Schltr.) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia antennifera subsp. klabochorum H.Mohr 1994; Restrepia hemsleyana Schltr. 1920;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as R hemsleyana; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 as R hemsleyana; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; AOS Bulletin No 63 No 9 1994 drawing; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Oasis Vol 1 No 1 2000; Orchid Australia Vol 13 No 2 2001 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 5 2001 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004

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