Telipogon costaricensis Schltr. 1911

Plant and Flowers Photos by C Ron Griesbeck courtesy of Yoshi Nomura and his Not So Green Thumb OrchidPages

Common Name The Costa Rican Telipogon

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in cloud forests 2500 to 3300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with distichous, coriaceosu, conduplicate, elliptic, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a rather lax, terminal, terete, racmose to 1 branched, to 22" [45 cm] long, successively single to 12 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Telipogon buenavistae Kraenzl. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1397 Atwood 1989

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