Restrepia escobariana Luer 1996 SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia Photo by © Colin Howe

Another Flower Photo by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Escobar's Restrepia [Colombian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Risaralda Colombia at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 5 to 7, whitish, thin, loose, compressed, more or less imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subconduplicate, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a behind the leaf, in a fascile, 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 4 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular floral bract.

Very similar to R elegans but can be easily distinguished by the plant which is small and densely caespitose

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Luer 1996 drawing fide;

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