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Orchid Species: Restrepia antennifera
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Restrepia antennifera is an orchid species identified by Kunth in F.W.H.von Humboldt in 1816.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in andean forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1600 to 3500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing, tufted epiphyte with erect stems enveloped basally by 3 to 4 purple spotted, sheathing bracts and carrying a single, apical, erect or erect-spreading, ovate or elliptic, obtuse or rounded, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the later winter and early spring and again in the late summer and early fall on 1 to 4, axillary, terete, slender, glabrous, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a large [for the genus] flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 2+ inches [5 cm+]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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