Restrepia aristulifera Garay & Dunst. in Garay & Dunst. 1972 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Pleurothallopsis Schltr. 1918
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Common Name or Meaning The Small Awn Restrepia [refers to the awns at the base of each petal]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Norte de Santander Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2800 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, elongate, stout ramicaul enveloped basally by 6 to 12, thin, whitish, compressed, somewhat imbricate, disitchous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, often suffused with purple beneath, elliptical, acute, the base cuneate or rounded and constricted into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a slender, 1.2" to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with the flower produced in a fascile held along the back of the leaf and has a thin, tubular floral bract.
Synonyms Restrepia aristulifera f. leathersii Luer 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol, 47 No 7 1978 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela A Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchideolgia Vol 16 No 1 1983; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo 1st soso 2nd dead on; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing/photo fide; Oasis Vol 1 No 2 2000 photo; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 5 2001 photo; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide; Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 333 to 368 2012 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer as R aristulifera drawing fide;
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