Barbosella prorepens (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1918 SUBGENUS Barbosella
Photos courtesy of Dale Borders
Photo by Kew cult. 2002-1291 (8 November 2016) ID:1121230 © RBG Kew Creative Commons License
Plant and Flower in situ Costa Rica
Photo courtesy of Wilfried Löderbusch
Drawings by © Carl Luer Common Name The Scrambling Barbosella
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Leeward Islands, Jamaica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in wet montane cloud forests as an miniature sized, warm to cold growing, shortly repent to caespitose epiphyte at altitudes of 800 to 2500 meters with a short ramicaul carrying a single coriaceous, elongate, semi-terete leaf and blooms in the spring and late fall on an erect, 4.8" [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, enveloping the pedicel floral bract with the flowers held above the leaves.
"Typically B prorepens is small with leaves less than 2" [5 cm] long, and peduncles shorter than or up to twicew as long as the leaves. The flower color is usually pale yellow but purple forms occur. The sepals are less than .8" [2 cm] long. B prorepens is a small vegetative form of B cucullata and intermediate forms are known as B dolichorhiza." Luer 2000
Synonyms Barbosella brenesii Schltr. 1923; Barbosella caespitifica (F. Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1974; Barbosella dussii (Cogn.) Dod 1986; Barbosella monstrabilis (Ames) Garay 1974; Barbosella tolimensis (Kraenzl.) Garay 1974; Pleurothallis dussii Cogn 1909; Pleurothallis monstrabilis Ames 1923; Pleurothallis prorepens (Rchb. f.) Ames, C.E. Hubb. & C. Schweinf. 1934; Restrepia caespitifica F. Lehm. & Kraenzl.1928; *Restrepia prorepens Rchb. f. 1877; Restrepia tolimensis Kraenzl. 1928
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; https://www.epidendra.com/taxones/Barbosella/Barbosella%20prorepens/Restrepia%20prorepens%20PROT.pdf"> Gard. Chron., n.s., 7(183): 810 Rchb.f 1877
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