Restrepia chameleon Luer & R. Escobar 1996 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Common Name The Color-Changing Restrepia

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in North central Colombia in forested, subparamo valley at an elevation of 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 10, whitish, loose, compressed, somewhat imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, elliptical-ovate, subacute, broadly cuneate or rounded into the contracted, twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, solitary flowered, produced successively in a fascile that is held to the underside of the leaf and carries a thin tubular, floral bract.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998;

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