Restrepia limbata Luer & R.Escobar 1982 SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918
Photos by David Kuehn ©
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning The Color Edged Restrepia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Risaralda depamrtment of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2200 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped completly by 6 to 8, thin grey, loose, compressed, oblique, distichous sheaths and carring a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, narrowly ovate, acute, slightly acuminate, broadly cuneate to rounded and twisted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a fascile, on the back of the leaf, successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
"Characterized by the narrowly ovate, acute, thickly coriaceous, rigid, subconduplicate leaves and a large flower borne by a short peduncle on the back of the leaf. The flowers are distinguished by the forwardly directed dorsal sepal and a synsepal closely striped with bright red-purple. The stripes break up into spots towards the apex. The lip is white with a broad rose stripe down the center. It is verrucose with minutely fringed margins on both sides of the hypochile and the epichile." Luer 1996
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing fide/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1991 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007
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