Telipogon monticola L.O.Williams 1970
Different color flower Photos by © Rodrigo Escobar and The Epidendra Website
LATE 
EARLY
Common Name The Montane Living Telipogon
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica in boggy depressions at elevations around 2275 to 3100 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a trailing to repent, apex upturned, elongate stem enveloped by imbricate leaf sheaths carrying fleshy, distichous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, apiculate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary to subterminal, slender, to 12" [30 cm] long, laxly 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, cucullate floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Fieldiana, Bot. 32(12): 202-204, f. 4. 1970. drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 17 #2 1987 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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