Restrepia flosculata Luer 1982 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Small Flowered Restrepia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found as a cloud forest, small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters in Colombia and Ecuador with erect, stout, ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 8, thin, whitish, loose, oblique, compressed, brown spotted, somewhat imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate or rounded base contracted intothe twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, .8 to 1.3" [2 to 2.8 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising in a fascile on the back of the leaf and carrying a thin, tubular floral bract.

Synonyms Restrepia flosculata subsp. picta (H. Mohr & Herzum) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia flosculata var. pallens H. Mohr & Herzum 1993; Restrepia flosculata var. picta H. Mohr & Herzum 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;

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