Restrepia limbata Luer & R.Escobar 1982
Plant and Flower Photos by David Kuehn ©
Common Name or Meaning The Color Edged Restrepia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Risaralda Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped completly by 6 to 8 , thin grey, loose, compressed, oblique, distichous sheaths and carring a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, narrowly ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, broadly cuneate to rounded and twisted below into the petilalte base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a fascile, on the back of the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Luer 198
