Restrepia dodsonii Luer 1980 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of Allen Black and Plant grown by Eric Thiessen

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens.

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Common Name Dodson's Restrepia [Current American Botanist Selby]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

A miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte that occurs in Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1060 to 1700 meters with a short rhizome and a ramicaul enveloped completely by several flattened sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ovate leafr the is conduplicate towards the base and blooms at most any time of the year on a 1 1/5" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with the flowers arising from the leaf base and are held just above the leaves.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 278 Dodson 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;

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