Restrepia teaguei Luer 1980 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Common Name Teague's Restrepia [named after Walter Teague, a well known orchid explorer from SanFrancisco, CA. now]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte in southeastern Ecuador in wet cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 1600 meters with erect ramicauls completely enveloped by 4 to 8, thin, whitish, compressed, loose, oblique, imbricate, acuminate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, round, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the cuneate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fascile of 2" [5cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile and arising on the back of the leaf with a tubular floral bract.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996

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