Restrepia pelyx Luer & R. Escobar 1982 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo by Jay Pfahl

Another Plant Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal

Yellow Form Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Common Name The Wooden Bowl Restrepia [Refers to the concave synsepal]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia and Veneauela at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 10 thin, loose, whitish, compressed, oblique, imbricate, disitchous sheaths with the lower ones spotted purple brown, and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, ovate, acute to subacute, cuneate to rounded base contracted intot he twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a slender, erect, 1.6" to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and held in a fascile with a thin tubular floral bract

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids COS 1992; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996

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