Restrepia trichoglossa (Sampled Red List Index Flora of Peru)

Restrepia trichoglossa

Common Name ⁴

The Hairy Tongued Restrepia

Location ⁴

Peru; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Guatemala; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama
Widely distributed and locally common

Habitat ⁴

Wet cool cloud forest, altitudes of 300-3,200m

Description ⁴

A small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte 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, 2" [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 occurring in the summer and early fall.