Restrepia mendozae Luer 1996 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name Mendoza's Restrepia [Ecuadorian discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in SE Ecuador in the Cordillera del Condor at elevations around 1500 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 8 thin, loose, compressed, oblique, imbricating, distichous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate base contorted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, successively single flowered, nutant inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf in a fascile and carrying a thin, tubular floral bract.

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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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