Telipogon calueri N.H.Williams & Dressler 2005 Drawing by © Vasquez & Dodson

Common Name Carl Luer's Telipogon [American Pleurothallidinae expert current]

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in La Paz department of Bolivia in wet montane cloud forests at elevations above 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped by fleshy, imbricate, distichous, foliaceous sheaths and carrying narrowly elliptic, acute, pale green, margin denticulate, articulated to the sheaths below leaves that blooms most likely throughout the year on a capitate, racemose, slender basally, thickening above, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with imbricate, ovate floral bracts and carrying light green flowers.

Synonyms Dipterostele lueri (Dodson & R.Vásquez) Garay & G.A.Romero 1998; Stellilabium lueri Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 381 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as Stellilabium lueri drawing fide;

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