Restrepiopsis microptera (Schltr.) Luer 1978 SUBGENUS Restrepiopsis Photo by © Wiel Driessen and their Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Plant and flowers Photo by © The Niessens and their Orquivalle Orchid Website

Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Small Wing Restrepiopsis [refers to the basal lobes of the lip]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1700 to 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 11, imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the sub-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring summer and fall on a fascile of .1 to .15" [2 to 3 mm] long, successive single flowered inflorescence arising from below the apex of the ramicaul

Synonyms *Pleurothallis microptera Schltr. 1920; Pleurothallopsis microptera (Schltr.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Restrepiella grandiflora Garay 1967; Restrepiella microptera (Schltr.) Garay & Dunst 1966; Restrepiopsis grandiflora (Garay) Luer 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1920 as Pleurothallis microptera; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 as Restrepiella microptera; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 8 Luer 1991 drawing fide; Native Colombian ORchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo & drawing fide

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