Restrepia chocoensis Garay 1973 Restrepia SUBGENUS Pachymeles (Garay) Luer Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

More Open flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal.

Common Name The Choco' Restrepia [A Department in the NW of Colombia]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the department of Choco', Colombia at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 4 to 5, white, tubular, imbricating, dotted with black or dark purple sheaths and carrying a single, apical erect, thickly coriaceous, rigid, narrowly linear-ovate, acute, conduplicate to sulcate, epetiolate [continuous with the ramicaul] base leaf that bloms in the spring and fall on a 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively single flowered, held in a fascile, inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul and carrying a spotted with purple, thin, tubular floral bract..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 8 1984 photo; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 5 2001 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 4 2004 photo;

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