!Telipogon nervosus (L.) Druce 1917 SECTION Telipogon SUBSECTION Telipogon Photo by © Fabian A. Michelangeli

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Common Name The Nerved Telipogon

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in paramo at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a suberect to rambling stem carrying fleshy and fairly rigid, rugose but shiny above, duller beneath, shortly mucronate apically leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, slender, light green, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with the lower flowers opening first .

Synonyms Telipogon angustifolius Kunth 1816; Telipogon steyermarkii Foldats 1968; *Tradescantia nervosa L. 1771

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as T angustifolius; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 5 Foldats 1970 as T steyermarkii drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville and Garay 1972 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 as T angustifolia photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol IV COS 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 drawing good/photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 T angustifolius photo ok; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 as T angustifolius drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #12 2017 photo fide;

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