Telipogon gnomus Schltr. 1921 SECTION Brevicaules SUBSECTION Alatiscapi Braas 1994

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Gnome Telipogon

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Bolivia in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped by imbricate leaf bases and carrying 3 to 4, elliptic-oblong, acute, gradually narrowing and conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on an axillary, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, flattened, triangular in cross-section, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #2 1979 photo okIcones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 594 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994;

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