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[[File:Restrepia_brachypus.jpg|thumb|''Restrepia brachypus'' (not my photo)]]


'''Common Name:''' The Short-Column Foot Restrepia<br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to cold<br />
'''Bloom:''' winter and spring<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 6cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Pleurothallis hawkesii'' Flickinger 1963; ''Renanthera striata'' Rolfe 1892; ''Restrepia antennifera'' Lindl. 1859; ''Restrepia antennifera subsp. striata'' H. Mohr 1996; ''Restrepia hawkesii'' Flickinger 1963; ''Restrepia striata'' Rolfe 1891
Found in Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and Colombia in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte at elevations of 1180 to 3200 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped completely by several inflated sheaths and carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptical leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, threadlike, to 12cm long, single flowered inflorescence that has sheathed bracts on the ramicaul, occurring in the winter and spring.
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