Restrepia lansbergii Rchb. f. & Wegener 1854 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of Wilfried Löderbusch

Common Name or Meaning Lansberg's Restrepia [Dutch Collector in Venezuela late 1800's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 1200 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 to 7, thin, whitish, loose, compressed, somewhat imbricating sheaths with the lowermost being black spotted, and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple beneath, elliptical-ovate, acute, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate or rounded base and contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and summer on an erect, slender, [3 to 6 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile behind the leaf and carrying a thin, tubular floral bract..

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;