Restrepia echinata

Restrepia echinata Luer & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 20: 135, fig (1996).

Restrepia echinata Luer & R.Escobar, Photo by Wiel Driessen

Its native range is E. Colombia to Peru.

Latin Name: 

Restrepia echinata Luer & R.Escobar

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Hedgehog-Like Restrepia (refers to the bristly margins to the lip).

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 6, loose, compressed, more or less spotted, more or less imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, yellow-green, elliptical-ovate, subacute to obtuse, broadly cuneate then contracted below into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 2.5 to 3.5 cm long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf and has a thin, tubular floral bract.

Distribution:

Colombia, Peru.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at elevations around 1100 to 1750 m as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Light:

Bright to Shade; 2000-3000 Footcandles (bright indirect light,strong shadowing).

Temperature:

Cool, Intermediate to Warm; 40°F min. to 95°F max.(tolerant of extremes,favoring cool).

Watering:

Moist; 3-5 waterings per week (let dry lightly between waterings)

Typus:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer 16660

Type Herbaria:

holotype JAUM

isotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Sardinata, 1730 m, Norte de Santander (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Remarks:

Type collection originally made by C. A. Luer, J. Luer, R. Escobar, & D.¹Portillo; flowered in cultivation at Colomborquideas as #6

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/300192-2

- powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:300192-2

- andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?pic=images/Species/7974med.jpg&PicId=7974&PicNam=Restrepia%20-%20echinata