Telipogon tessellatus Lindl. 1844 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Anna Chai, shown at the 2 Apr 2002 meeting of the San Francisco Orchid Society

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Common Name The Tessellated Telipogon

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte that dies back after blooming and takes a rest until the next growth season so do not throw away until you are sure that it is dead, with a short stem that branches basally enveloped completely by distichous, basally imbricating, elliptic-oblong, conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms on a compressed, 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a large acuminate sheath occuring in the spring through summer. This species is highly variable in flower shape and color, amount of veins and reticulation and if the color is bright or not, but the callus and the column do not vary between clones.

Synonyms Telipogon asuayanus Rchb. f. 1877; Telipogon obovatus Lindl.1847; Telipogon pachyhybos Schltr. 1921

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 995 Dodson 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 592 Dodson 1989 as Telipogon obovatus;

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