Restrepia sanguinea Rolfe 1896 Restrepia subgen. Restrepia sect. Restrepia Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

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Common Name The Blood Red Restrepia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

A small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Colombia at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, leathery , purple suffused leaf and blooms in the spring on a terminal, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile and arises on the back side of the leaf.

Synonyms Pleurothallis antioquiensis (Schltr.) P.H.Allen 1948; Restrepia antioquiensis Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native COlombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996

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