Telipogon ionopogon Rchb.f. 1876
Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Photos by C Ron Griesbeck
Common Name The Violet Colored Beard Telipogon
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found only in southern Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 3000 meters on roadbanks and steep slopes as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a short stem enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a few elliptic, obtuse, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the summer on an erect, elongate, 4" [10 cm] long, terminal, terete, successively few flowered inflorescence.
Similar to T maldonadoensis but T ionopogon has a pink column that is swollene beneath, the very broadly ovate, concave lip, acuminate petals without spine like basal hairs and few to no reticulation between the veins.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 992 Dodson 1984 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 pg 436 photo close; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #10 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #2 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #12 2017 photo fide;
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