Restrepia roseola Luer & R. Escobar 1996 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania

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Common Name The Rosy Restrepia

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the northern coastal mountains of Venezuela as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring in cloud forests at elevations around 1300? to 2300 meters with ramicauls enveloped basally by 5 dry, thin, loose, whitish, somewhaat imbricating, distichous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate base contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf, that blooms in the late spring and summer on a wiry, erect, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile on the back of the leaf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996

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