Restrepia contorta (Ruiz & Pav.) Luer 1996 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia
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Common Name The Twisted Restrepia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
From Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte found at 1300 to 3200 meters with erect ramicauls, enveloped basally by 5 dry, acuminate sheaths, carrying a single, apical, elliptical, apically tridentate leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, wiry, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed floral bracts.
Synonyms *Humboldtia contorta Ruiz & Pavon 1798; Humboltia contorta Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Pleurothallis fimbrilabia C. Schweinf. 1953; Pleurothallis maculata subsp. ecuadoriensis [Schlechter]H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia apiculata Luer 1982; Restrepia caucana Schlechter 1920; Restrepia ecuadorensis Rolfe 1892; Restrepia maculata F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1846; Restrepia maculata subsp. ecuadoriensis (Rolfe) H.Mohr 1996; Restrepia pardina Lem. 1869; Restrepia punctulata Lindley 1859; Stelis contorta [Ruiz & Pavon]Pers. 1807
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 368 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as Restrepia maculata; 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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