Telipogon jostii (Dodson) N.H.Williams & Dressler 2005 Photo by © Gast and The Orchideen Forum Website

Common Name Jost's Telipogon [American Orchid Enthusaist in Ecuador Current]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador at elevations of 1350 to 2800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped by imbricate leaf sheaths carrying distichous, fan-shaped, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, racemose, terete, to 6" [15 cm] long, successively single, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Stellilabium jostii Dodson 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 pg 1180 as Stellilabium jostii drawing fide/photo good; Orchids Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as T alticolum not photo fide;

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