Telipogon tupayachii Nauray & A. Galán 2008

Photos by © Nauray and Mamani, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Tupayach's Telipogon [Peruvian Botanist Current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Peru at elevations around 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing, caulescent terrestrial with a leafy throughout stem carrying ovate-lanceolate, acuminate leaves with erose margins that blooms in the fall on a cylindric, flexuous, 5" [12.5 cm] long, racemose, successively 1 to 2, 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence with an ovate-triangular, conduplicate, acute floral bract and carrying flowers that are normally resupinate.

" Telipogon tupayachii differs to T.phuyupatamarcensis W. Galiano, P. Núñez & A. Tu-payachi in the petals and lip with purplish veins branched towards the margin and transverse purplish lines, the sagittate-conical callus and the column with longer and denser hairs. Material of T. tupayachii was included in the holotype material of T. phuyupatamarcensis. The flowers of T. tupayachii are reminescent of the genus Trichoceros Kunth, but the plants are caulescent without pseudobulbs." William Nauray Huari1 & Antonio Galán de Mera 2008

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 65: 93 Ten new species of Telipogon (Orchidaceae, Oncidiinae)from southern Peru William Nauray Huari1 & Antonio Galán de Mera 2008