Restrepia persicina

 Restrepia persicina Luer & Hirtz, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 105: 255 (fig. 14) (2006).

Restrepia persicina Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Gerrit Verhellen

its native range is Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe).

Latin Name: 

Restrepia persicina Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Peach Colored Restrepia.

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped by 7 to 8, thin, whitish, loose, obliquely acute, compressed, more or less imbricating, dar spotted sheaths and carrying as single, apical, erect, coriacaeous, elliptical-ovate, acute, broadly cuneate to rounded and contracted into the twisted, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a fascile, arising on the back of the leaf, slender, 4 to 5 cm long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a thin, tubular, acute floral bract.

Distribution:

Ecuador.

Ecological:

At elevations around 1500 m as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the winter.

Flower size:

2.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Collector Team:

A.Hirtz 8915

Locality:

Zamora-Chinchipe: near Zumba, 1500m

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Ecuador (Western South America, Southern America)

Type Remarks:

Collected and flowered in cultivation by Ecuagenera, Qualaceo, 27 July 2004

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/77080480-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77080480-1

-  http://www.orchidspecies.com/respersicina.htm.

- https://orchids.fandom.com