Restrepia flosculata Luer 1982 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Small Flowered Restrepia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found as a cloud forest, small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1200 to 1800 meters in Colombia and Ecuador with erect, stout, ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 8, thin, whitish, loose, oblique, compressed, brown spotted, somewhat imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate or rounded base contracted intothe twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a slender, .8 to 1.3" [2 to 2.8 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising in a fascile on the back of the leaf and carrying a thin, tubular floral bract.

Louren's photo with the pure yellow flower above is the atypical Restrepia flosculata var. pallens. Restrepia flosculata var picta has the yellow and red striped more normaly found flowers.

Synonyms Restrepia flosculata subsp. picta (H. Mohr & Herzum) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia flosculata var. pallens H. Mohr & Herzum 1993; Restrepia flosculata var. picta H. Mohr & Herzum 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Schlechteriana Vol 4 No 1/2 1993 drawing, Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;

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