Telipogon andicola Rchb.f 1855

Plant and Flower in situ Ecuador Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name or Meaning The Andes Residing Telipogon

Flower Size 1 2/5" [3.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 2900 to 3500 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short stem that basally branches with age carrying disitichous, imbricating basally oblong-obovate, gradually narrows belwo into the conduplicate base leaves that blooms on a 3 winged, triangular in cross section 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the winter through late spring. This species dies back after blooming and rests until the next growth season starts so do not throw out it may not be dead.

Synonyms Telipogon caucanus Schlechter 1920; Telipogon dendriticus Rchb.f 1878; Telipogon ecuadorensis Schlechter 1921; Telipogon polyrrhizus Rchb.f 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 984 Dodson 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum SERIES II Plate 587 Dodson 1989 as Telipogon dendriticus; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum SERIES II Plate 588 Dodson 1989 as Telipogon ecuadorensis

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