Pleurothallis restrepioides Lindl. 1836 SUBGENUS Elongatia SECTION Elongatae Lindl. Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Japheth Ko

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Common Name The Restrepia-Like Pleurothallis

Flower Size more than 1 1/2" [3.7 cm]

This medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at altitudes of 800 to 2900 meters with a short rhizome, and an elongate ramicaul enveloped basally by 4, elongate, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, apical, elliptic, thick, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf and blooms on several at once, apical, racemose, suberect, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence arising from a spathe at the base of the leaf and having many acuminate, loose bracts giving rise to several successively opening, foul smelling, pendant flowers that are held all to one side of the inflorescence and all above the leaves, occurring in the winter.

Synonyms Elongatia restrepioides (Lindl.) Luer 2004; Humboldtia fritillaria (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia fritillaria (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Humboltia restrepiodes (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis atroviolacea F. Lehm. & Kraenzl 1899; Pleurothallis fritillaria Rchb. f. 1855; Stelis restrepioides (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as P fritillaria; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 254 Dodson 1980; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol 3 Luer 1986; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XI Systematics of Lepanthes subgenus Brachycladium and Pleurothallis subgen Aenigma, subgen Elongata, Subgen Kraenzlinnella Luer 1994; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 as P macrophylla; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4 2001 as Stelis restrepioides; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003;

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