Telipogon guacamayensis Dodson & R.Escobar 1989

Flower Closeup Photo by Linda & Mikail Karlbom

Common Name or Meaning The Guacamaya Telipogon [Cordillera de Guacamaya - Mountain range in Ecuador]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Napo Ecuador in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 2040 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short, basally branching stem carrying narrowly obovate, acute, narrowing below into the articulate junctioned base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal or lateral, to 3.2" [to 8 cm] long, 3 winged, successively few, single flowered inflorescence with boat-shaped, ovate, keeled on the basck floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

CAUTION The flower in the photo above is close but does not constitute an exact match so use with caution.

Synonyms Telipogon caucanus Schlechter 1920; Telipogon dendriticus Rchb.f 1878; Telipogon ecuadorensis Schlechter 1921; Telipogon polyrrhizus Rchb.f 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 drawing fide; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 T polyrrhizus; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as T caucanus; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as T ecuadorensis; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 984 Dodson 1984 drawing close; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum SERIES II Plate 587 Dodson 1989 as Telipogon dendriticus drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum SERIES II Plate 588 Dodson 1989 as Telipogon ecuadorensis drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo 2nd photo does not match photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 pg 436 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 pg 436 as T dendriticus photo not; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 pg 436 as T ecuadorensis photo not; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 pg 436 as T polyrrhiza photo not; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing as T dendriticus fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing as T ecuadoriensis fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo;

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