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Orchid Species: Restrepiopsis pulchella
Kew currently accepted name is Pleurothallopsis monetalis
Restrepiopsis pulchella is an orchid species identified by Luer in 1983. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Pleurothallopsis monetalis.
Genus
Restrepiopsis (Rpps.)
Grex
pulchella
Parents
Species
Author
Luer
Year
1983
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Southern Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1800 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envloped basally by 2 to 3 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse to rounded, abruptly narrows below into the petiolate base leaf that is purple suffused and that blooms in the spring on a successively single flowered, fasiculate, 1/16 to 1/8 [3 to 7 mm] long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. There is a large gap between the northern Venezuelan and southern Ecuadorian species as there are none recorded from Colombia, but other than the smaller Venezuelan flowers with minor differences they are the same species.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls envloped basally by 2 to 3 imbricating, ribbed, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse to rounded, abruptly narrows below into the petiolate base leaf that is purple suffused and that blooms in the spring on a successively single flowered, fasiculate, 1/16 to 1/8 [3 to 7 mm] long inflorescence arising from near the apex of the ramicaul. There is a large gap between the northern Venezuelan and southern Ecuadorian species as there are none recorded from Colombia, but other than the smaller Venezuelan flowers with minor differences they are the same species.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
| Genus Name | Genus | Grex Name | Year | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add+ | Pleurothallopsis | Plu | monetalis | 2001 | (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase |
| Add+ | Octomeria | Oma | monetalis | 1980 | Luer |
| Add+ | Restrepiopsis | Rpps | monetalis | 1982 | (Luer) Luer |
Most awarded/recent cultivars:
Rpps. monetalis 'Hoosier'
(1995)
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