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Common Name The Hairy Tongued Restrepia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Panama, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte from wet cool cloud forests at altitudes of 300 to 3200 meters with the ramicaul concealed by 4 to 8, large, compressed scarious, tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate, minutely bidentate, broadly cuneate to rounded base contacted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single flowered, fasciculate inflorescence held in a fascile, with a obovate, obtuse, inflated floral bract holding the flowers above and behind the leaf and has sheathed bracts occuring in the summer and early fall.

Synonyms Pleurothallis amesiana L.O.Williams 1940; Pleurothallis filamentosa (Ames & C. Schweinf.) L.O. Williams 1940; Pleurothallis subserrata (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1940; Restrepia angustilabia Schltr. 1923; Restrepia angustilabia subsp. subserrata (Schltr.) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia antennifera subsp. leontoglossa (Schltr.) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia brachypus subsp. serrilabia (Schltr.) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia filamentosa Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925; Restrepia lankesteri Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930; Restrepia leontoglossa Schltr. 1920; Restrepia serrilabia Schltr. 1920; Restrepia subserrata Schltr. 1923; Restrepia trichoglottis hort. ex Gentil 1906[1907]

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 95 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 as Restrepia lankesteri; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1577 Atwood 1993 as Restrepia subserrata; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 369 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998;

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