SUBGENUS Restrepioidia Luer 1986
Characterized by the well eveloped ramicaul with a central tubular sheath and a few basal ones below that blooms with a racemose inflorecence or reduced to a fascile of single flowers. The annulus may be obliteratedby the abscission layer. The lateral sepals are connate and the apices of the petals are long-acuminate and there is a pair of uncinate lobes arising from the basal part of the lip. The lip base is more or less adnate to the column foot and the short, stout column hasa hooded ventral anther and a thick pedestal-like foot.
TYPE for the SUBGENUS
!Pleurothallis nuda (Klotzsch) Rchb. f. 1861
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