Telipogon elcimeyae Braas & Horich 1982 Photo by © Pontus Aratoun and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The El Cimeya ? Telipogon
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 1500 to 2400 meters as a miniminiature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul carrying ellipitic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, terete, filamentous, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, successively single, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideologia Vol 17 #1 1987 photo fide; Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family Dressler 1993 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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