Restrepia pandurata Rchb.f. 1888 subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia

Another Angle Photos by © Antoine HENDRICKX

Common Name The Pandurate Restrepia [refers to the violin-shaped lip]

Flower Size .8" [2cm]

Found in central Colombia with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 10 whitish, loose, compressed, black spotted, somewhat imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, somewhat purple suffused beneath, elliptical-ovate, subacute, basally broadly cuneate or rounded then contracted into a twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, on the back of the leaf, successively single flowered in a fascile inflorescence with thin tubular flroal bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;