Restrepia trichoglossa

"Restrepia trichoglossa Sander is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama. The first plants were found in Colombia in the Cauca department, where they grew on trees in humid forests near Popayán, at an altitude of 1600-2000 m"

Restrepia trichoglossa Sander, Sander's Orch. Guide 215 (1901).

Restrepia trichoglossa Sander, Photo by Ricardo Marin Thiele

its native range is Mexico (Chiapas) to Peru.

Latinh Name: 

Restrepia trichoglossa Sander

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Pleurothallis amesiana L.O.Williams

Pleurothallis filamentosa (Ames & C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams

Pleurothallis subserrata (Schltr.) L.O.Williams

Restrepia angustilabia Schltr.

Restrepia angustilabia subsp. subserrata (Schltr.) H.Mohr

Restrepia antennifera subsp. leontoglossa (Schltr.) H.Mohr

Restrepia brachypus subsp. serrilabia (Schltr.) H.Mohr

Restrepia filamentosa Ames & C.Schweinf.

Restrepia lankesteri Ames & C.Schweinf.

Restrepia leontoglossa Schltr.

Restrepia serrilabia Schltr.

Restrepia subserrata Schltr.

English Name:

The Hairy Tongued Restrepia.

Description: 

With the ramicaul concealed by 4 to 8, large, compressed scarious, tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate, minutely bidentate, broadly cuneate to rounded base contacted into the twisted petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, 5 cm long, successively single flowered, fasciculate inflorescence held in a fascile, with a obovate, obtuse, inflated floral bract holding the flowers above and behind the leaf and has sheathed bracts occuring in the summer and early fall.

Distribution:

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Southeast, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru.

Ecological:

As a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte from wet cool cloud forests at altitudes of 300 to 3200 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer and early fall.

Flower size:

3.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate:

Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation:

High

Light:

Medium

Humidity:

High

Fertilizer:

Weekly

Type:

Collector Team:

F.C.Lehmann B. T. 1312

Type Herbaria:

lectotype K

isotype AMES

isotype W

Distribution Of Types:

On trees of moist forest, highlands of Popayán, 1600-2000 m, Cauca (Colombia, Western South America, Southern America)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- orchidspecies.com

- ipni.org

- powo.science.kew.org

- orchids.fandom.com

- travaldo.blogspot.com

- ecuagenera.com