Telipogon davidsonii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
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Common Name Davidson's Telipogon [American Botanist and University professor at Rutgers 1900's]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Piura department of Peru in cold damp cloud forests at elevations around 3150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with short stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying 4 to 5, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing into the conduplicate, subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, short-pedunculate, compressed, to 3.8" [9.5 cm] long, successively 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute-acuminate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 783 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014
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