Restrepia portillae Luer 2002 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia
Photos by Patricia Harding and The Species Identification Task Force Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name or Meaning Portilla's Restrepia [Ecuadorian Orchid Nurseryman current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Morona Santiago province of southeastern Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 6 loose, compressed, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, elliptical, obtuse, broadly cuneate and contracted into a twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a fascile of slender, arising from behind the leaf, 1.6 to 1.8" [4 to 4.5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Differs the most from others by the panduriform lip with a cuneate, spiculate epichile, a narrow isthmus and a proportionately large, concave hypochile with extremely short lobules.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide
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