Telipogon tsipiriensis (Pupulin) N.H.Williams & Dressler 2005 Photo by © Franco Pupulin and The Herbarium JBL Website

Common Name The Quebrada Tsipiri Telipogon [An area of Costa Rica]

Flower Size small

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rainforests on small twigs at elevations around 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 2, distichous, narrowly ligulate-elliptic, acute, sometimes absent at flowering leaves that blooms in the spring on a racemose, terete, branched, flattened, 2 to 5.6" [5 to 14 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence enveloped by 3 to 4, triangular acute bracts.

Synonyms *Stellilabium tsipiriense Pupulin 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Harvard Pap. Bot. 8(1): 30. 2003 as Stellilabium tsipiriense; *Lankesteriana 5(3): 171. 2005

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