Restrepia guttulata Lindl. 1836 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo courtesy of Arthur Skinner
Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
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Common Name The Small Spotted Restrepia
Flower Size 3/5" to 2" [1.75 to 5 cm]
A small to just medium sized, cold to cool growing, Ecuadorian and Venezuelan, epiphytic species from 1700 to 3000 meters with erect terete ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious bracts carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute leaf and blooms in the spring on a slender, terminal, 2 3/4" [to 7 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed bracts and holds the flowers at or above the leaf.
Synonyms Restrepia maculata subsp. robledorum (Braas & Braem) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia leopardina hort. 1899; Restrepia robledorum Braas & Braem 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;
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