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Restrepia echo 2023-10-27 *SITF confirms this plant is Restrepia echo (Oct 2023).
This plant matches the description in Luer's Icones Pleurothallidinarum XIII. The inflated sheaths of the ramicauls are densely spotted, the flowers are borne on the back of the leaf, and the more-or-less featureless lip is proportionately short, less than half the length of the synsepal. There are closely matching photos of this species in this Icones, the OW and eight very good photos of this species in the orchidroots.com.

Posted on Oct 27, 2023

John Lees was the vendor, plant is believed to originate in Columbia. Six flowers and three buds on nine single inflorescences to 1.8cm, on a 18cm tall and 17cm wide plant, grown on a 3cm wide by 3cm ...

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Restrepia-aristulifera-2022-05-08***SITF confirmed as Restrepia aristulifera f. leathersii (Aug 2022);
forma leathersii is a validly described forma and is the white form of aristulifera with yellow in the flower parts; the forma was described by Luer in the Harvard papers based on a taxon he received from John Leathers; this submitted plant which fits Luer's description was in fact also obtained from John Leathers and could be a division of the same plant; there is a very good supporting photo of the yellow form by Grobler in the IOSPE.***

Posted on May 8, 2022

This plant was obtained from John Leathers and is thought to be Restrepia aristulifera f. leathersii. The plant appears to be xanthic.

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Restrepia-escobarina-2021-03-16***Determined to be Restrepia elegans, not Restrepia escobarina (May 2022); this has been a difficult plant to identify; using the key for Restrepia (Systematics of Restrepia in Icones Pleurothallidarum), the plant is right on the cusp of being a small plant (>10 cm) or a large plant (<10 cm) if a small plant, it keyed directly to R. elegans, if both paths are followed to their conclusions and compare the choices, R. elegans has the form and color, is closest to the size, and the correct color pattern with spots forming line patterns; but there is much variability and overlapping with several similar species, including R. chameleon and R. lansbergii. Note: many of the measurements in the Award Form appear to be reversed***

Posted on Mar 16, 2021

Please note you may have this listed as 20212526, but the real number is 20212562. Plant is from Ecuagenera.

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Restrepia-purpurea-2020-01-13***Confirmed as Restrepia purpurea (Mar 2020); matches photos in IOSPE; based on Luer's description that the flowers are much smaller than R. brachypus and that the synsepal base color is white rather than yellow with prominent red-purple stripes, rather than spots; his plant is unusual in that the leaf color is clear green, not suffused with red-purple per the description.***

Posted on Jan 13, 2020

I bought this plant from Ecuagenera. Listed as #42 in Restrepia in Jay Pfhals orchid species.

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