Telipogon parvulus C.Schweinf. 1937 Photo by © Lourens Grobler and The Wikia Website

Side View of Flower Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar and The EpidendraWebsite

Full ShadeCool Fall

Common Name The Small Flowered Telipogon

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and western Panama in pluvial forests at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheaths carrying linear to linear-oblong, rounded and apiculate leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, to 2" [5 cm] long, filiform, glabrous, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with a single infundibulbiform spreading bract and similar floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bot. Mus. Leafl. 4(7): 123. 1937 Schweinfurth drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 17 #2 1987 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 18 #3 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing fide;

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