Telipogon standleyi Ames 1925
Photo © by Eric Hagsater and The Herbario AMO Website
Type Drawing by Ames Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR
Common Name Standley's Telipogon [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica on shady lower thin branches on mossy trees in wet montane oak forests at elevations of 1600 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with complanate, ascending stems carrying several, crowded, basal, sub-rosulate, narrowly lanceolate, acute, fleshy, more or less erect leaves and a few scale like leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, branching, alatae, strongly flattened, succesively single, loosely several [6] flowered inflorescence with scale-like, triangular floral bracts
Similar to T lankesteri but strikingly different in being a smaller plant that has leaves at blooming and has much shorter glandular hairs on the column
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orch. 9: 53-55, f. 9. 1925 drawing fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 3(1): 58. 1998 as Dipterostele standleyi; Brittonia 14(4): 446. 1962 as Stellilabium standleyi; Harvard Papaers in Botany Vol 3 # 1 58 Schedulae Orchidum I Garay 1998 as Dipterostele standleyi; Icones Orchidacearaum Plate 696 Hagsater, Salazar & Soto 2002 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 as Stellilabium standleyi; Lankesteriana 12: 115-119 Bogarín 2012 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Stellilabium standleyi
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