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A small species that I bought from Burnham Nursery while I was still searching for ways to not-kill them (I didn't find one). Jay Pfahl's Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia says: "Found in Merida and Falcon states of western Venezuela at elevations around 1200 to 2300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte... 'Allied to both Restrepia elegans and Restrepia lansbergii but R wagneri differs in the thinly striped synsepal. Similar to striped form of Restrepia trichoglossa but the very narrow, usually fringed lip immediately distinguishes it. The small lip of R wagneri is oblong, only faintly if at all, narrowed near the middle. The surface and margins are only minutely or microscopically scabrous-verrucose.' Luer 1996 " The Smithsonia Gardens Plant Explorer adds: "This miniature orchid is named for a German orchid collector of the 1800s. Its flower blooms from under its leaves. |
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