Restrepia falkenbergii Rchb. f. 1880 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
TYPE Sheet by Reichenbach f
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Falkenberg's Restrepia [German Collector Discoverer of species 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in the central cordillera at elevations around 1000 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveolped basally by 8 to 12, whitish, loose, compressed, oblique, imbricating, intensely spotted purple brown on lower sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, ovate, acute to subacute, cuneate base and contracted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, erect, held in a fascile, arising on the back of the leaf, 1.6" to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence withj a thin, tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Vegetatively the largest of the genus. The flower is medium sized witha smooth, narrow-waisted, violin-shaped lip. The petals are filiform above the middle without clavate apices. The yellow, brown striped synsepal is very similar to that of the verrucose lipped Restrepia brachypus but R falkenbergii is glabrous and pandurate.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing/photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 5 2001 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo drawing/fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;
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