Restrepia sanguinea Rolfe 1896 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION 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 miniature 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 ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as R antioquensis; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 1 1988 photo; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991 as R antioquiensis; 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;
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