Restrepia portillae Luer 2002 SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Portilla's Restrepia [Ecuadorian Orchid Nurseryman current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 loose, compressed, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate and contracted into a twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of slender, 1.6 to 1.8" [4 to 4.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf and has a tubular floral bract.

Differs the most from others by the panduriform lip with a cuneate, spiculate epichile, a narrow isthmus and a proportionately large, concave hypochile with extremely short lobules.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide

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