Restrepia cymbula Luer 1996 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Jerzy Dziedzic
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Boat Restrepia [Refers to the boat-shaped synsepal]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found only in Ecuador without locational data as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicaul provided with 5 to 6, thin, whitish, loose, compressed, somewhat imbricating, distichous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple spotted beneath, elliptical, obtuse, basally rounded and sessile leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a slender, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, successively single flowered infloresence held in a fascile, arising from the back of the leaf and carrying a thin, oblique, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Easily recognized by the small habit and a small flower with a boat shaped, red-spotted synsepal. The subpandurate lip is lightly verrucose and conspicuously incised at the apex." Luer 1996
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing/photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
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