Restrepia archilarum Chiron & Szlach. 2013 SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918
Photo by of © Fredy Archila and Richardiana XIII 237 Chrion & Szatchetko 2013 Etude de populations pour une meilleure compréhension du genre Restrepia (Orchidaceae) au Guatemala
Photo by of © Javier Archila and The Orchigonia Facebook page
TYPE Drawing by © Richardiana XIII 237 Chrion & Szatchetko 2013 Etude de populations pour une meilleure compréhension du genre Restrepia (Orchidaceae) au Guatemala
Common Name The Archila's Restrepia [Guatemalan Family orchid nursery owners current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Alta Verapaz department of Guatemala at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with purple ramicauls enveloped by white bracts, lowermost with dark red, warty dots and carrying green, lanceolate, microscopically tridenticulate, obliquely cordate below leaves that blooms in the winter on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
"Similar to Restrepia muscifera but differs in the larger plants, acuminate leaves, oblanceolate-subspathulate lateral sepals, the petals and sepals longer and different colored flowers." Chiron & Schlachetko
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Richardiana XIII 237 Chrion & Szatchetko 2013 Etude de populations pour une meilleure compréhension du genre Restrepia (Orchidaceae) au Guatemala drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide
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