Restrepia cuprea Luer & R. Escobar 1996 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

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Common Name The Copper-Colored Restrepia

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

A Colombian species found on the eastern slopes of the central cordillera at 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 7, thin whitish, loose, compressed, somewhat imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, often suffused with purple beneath, elliptical ovate, subacute, cuneate to rounded basally contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, slender, single flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and carrying a thin, tubular floral bract..

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

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