Telipogon aureus Lindl. 1845 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

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Common Name The Golden Telipogon

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations 1850 to to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cold to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying distichous, basally imbricating, narrowly elliptic, conduplicate below to the attenuate base leaf that blooms on an axillary, single flowered, 2" [5 cm] long, fractiflex apically inflorescence that is narrowly two winged in cross section and has loose, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Telipogon sprucei Kraenzl. 1920

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 497 Dodson 1982 as Telipogon sprucei; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 986 Dodson 1984

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