Code: RSTP.0x0001
Common Name: The Short-Column Foot Restrepia
Scented: no
Light Requirements: partial shade
Temperature Requirements: cool to cold
Bloom: winter and spring
Flower Size: 6cm
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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