Restrepia brachypus (yellow)

"Restrepia brachypus Rchb.f. is native to Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. In Colombia, these plants meet in many locations both on the eastern and western side of the Cordilleras, usually at an altitude of 1500-2500 m."

Restrepia brachypus Rchb.f., Flora 69 (n.s. 44): 554 (1886).

Restrepia brachypus Rchb.f., Photo by Esperantha Ivan

its native range is W. South America to NW. Venezuela.

Latinh Name: 

Restrepia brachypus Rchb.f.,

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Pleurothallis hawkesii Flickinger

Renanthera striata Rolfe

Restrepia antennifera subsp. striata (Rolfe) H.Mohr

Restrepia striata Rolfe

English Name:

The Short-Column Foot Restrepia.

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped completely by several inflated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, threadlike, to 12 cm long, single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed bracts on the ramicaul, occuring in the winter and spring.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.

Ecological:

In wet montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1180 to 3200 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter and spring.

Flower size:

6.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Cool

Air Circulation: High

Light: Medium

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Weekly

Type:

Distribution Of Types:

New Granada

Low, H. [s.n.], Colombia K000583689 lectotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- travaldo.blogspot.com 

- ecuagenera.com