Restrepia muscifera (Lindl.) Rchb. f. ex Lindl. 1859 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

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Common Name The Fly-Carrying Restrepia

Flower Size about 1" [2.3 cm]

This miniature to small sized, epiphytic, caepitose, warm to cool growing species is found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia Ecuador at elevations of 300 to 2500 meters in tropical and mountain rainforests with thin ramicauls covered with scarious sheaths and a single, apical, lanceolate or oblong, coriaceous, acute to obtuse leaf where it blooms on 1 to 2, 1/2" [2 cm] long fasciles that produce several successive opening flowers appearing in the summer through winter and are held near the leaf base. Grows well both mounted and in a pot with chopped tree fern, pine bark and chopped sphagnum in cool to warm temperatures with semi-shade and high humidity.

Synonyms Pleurothallis dayana [Rchb.f] Lo Williams 1940; *Pleurothallis muscifera Lindl. 1842; Restrepia dayana Rchb.f 1875; Restrepia lansbergii Rchb.f 1861; Restrepia muscifera subsp. shuttleworthii (Rolfe) H. Mohr; Restrepia powellii Schlechter 1922; Restrepia shuttleworthii Rolfe 1892; Restrepia tonduzii Schlechter 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 96 Hagsater & Salazar 1990; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1576 Atwood 1993; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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