Restrepia fritillina Luer & V.N.M.Rao 2007

Lip Detail Photo by © Thierry Bonhomme

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Common Name The Black Spot Restrepia [Refers to the sepals with black spots, not all flowers have these]

Flower Size .4” [1 cm]

Found in Colombia without locational data with erect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, thin, whitish, loose, compressed, more or less imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, solid purple beneath, ovate, acute, broadly cuneate and contracted below into the twisted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on the back of the leaf with a fascile of 1.6 to 2” [4 to 5 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular floral bract.

Distinguished more by the 3 to 4 small process arising from a common base that are at the base of the lip than the black spots on the sepals which not all flowers have.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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