Restrepia guttulata Lindl. 1837 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Orchid Website
Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
Drawing of Ecuadorian specimen
Drawings by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Small Spotted Restrepia
Flower Size 3/5" to 2" [1.75 to 5 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 1700 to 3000 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold to cool growing epiphytic species with erect terete ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious bracts carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, subacute leaf and blooms in the spring through fall on a slender, terminal, arising on the back of the leaf, 2.8" [to 7 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, shorter than the ovary bract and holds the flowers at or above the leaf.
"Similar to and for years considered a synonym of Restrepia antennifera however the typical striped forms of R antennifera adn the typical spotted forms of R guttulata appear distinct. Restrepia contorta also with spotted synsepals is distinguished by the usually smaller flowers with a more or less subpandurate lip with a scabrous and denticulate blade." Luer 1996
Synonyms Restrepia maculata subsp. robledorum (Braas & Braem) H. Mohr 1996; Restrepia robledorum Braas & Braem 1992
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing = R contorta; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing = R contorta; Orchids of Venezuela a Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing = R contorta; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978 photo fide; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 2 1991; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 as R hemsleyana photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol VIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing/photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 Errata Photo #560 = R guttulata; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 4 1998 photo; Oasis Vol 1 No 2 2000 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 5 2001 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide;
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