Restrepia brachypus Rchb. f. 1886 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania
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Common Name The Short-Column Foot Restrepia
Flower Size to 2 1/4" [6 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1180 to 3200 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by several inflated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, threadlike, to 5" [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed bracts on the ramicaul, occuring in the winter and spring.
Synonyms Pleurothallis hawkesii Flickinger 1963; Renanthera striata Rolfe 1892; Restrepia antennifera Lindl. 1859; Restrepia antennifera subsp. striata H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia hawkesii Flickinger 1963; Restrepia striata Rolfe 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1577 Atwood 1993; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;
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