Restrepia pelyx Luer & R. Escobar 1982 Restrepia SUBGENUS Restrepia SECTION Restrepia
Photos by © Milan Vágner
Yellow Form Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Front View Photo by Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Wooden Bowl Restrepia [Refers to the concave synsepal]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Santander Colombia and Venezuela in cloud forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 6 to 10 thin, loose, whitish, compressed, oblique, imbricate, disitchous sheaths with the lower ones spotted purple brown, and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, purple suffused beneath, ovate, acute to subacute, cuneate to rounded base contracted intot he twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a slender, erect, 1.6" to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on the back of the leaf and held in a fascile with a thin tubular floral bract
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XIII Systematics of Restrepia Luer 1996 drawing/photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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