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Restrepia loefgrenii is an orchid species identified by Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1906. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Barbosella australis.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Brazil at elevations around 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool growing, creeping epiphyte with a creeping, branching rhizome giving rise to ascending, cylindrical ramicauls enveloped by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, elliptic-oblong, often suffused with purple, acute, conduplicate below into the sessile base leaf blooms in the summeron a .6 to 1.4 [1.5 to 3.5 cm] long, erect, terete, slender, single flowered stalk arising from the papery bract at the basal leaf whorl. It holds the single flower well above the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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