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Restrepia ophiocephala is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in 1854. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Restrepiella ophiocephala.
ORIGIN: This is a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte from Mexico to Costa Rica as well as occasionally in South Florida in damp, lower montane forests with rivers, margins of swamp forest and coffee plantations at elevations of 40 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: This is a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte from Mexico to Costa Rica as well as occasionally in South Florida in damp, lower montane forests with rivers, margins of swamp forest and coffee plantations at elevations of 40 to 1600 meters with a short creeping rhizome and stout, well clustered, erect cylindric stems mostly covered with tubular sheaths that carries a single, elipticv-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate, shortly petiolate base leaf at the apex and carrying basally, a large tubular spathe at the leaf base from which the short, ringent, fasciculate inflorescence arises from the ramicaul without an annulus with 1 to 4 flowers at a time, and with more that appear successively after the last has faded. This species blooms in the winter and spring and likes to be evenly moist year round.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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