Telipogon intis Braas 1981 Photo by © Patricia Harding

Common Name

Flower Size

Found in Peru in wet, cold cloud forests at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized cold growing epiphyte with branching stems carrying 3 to 5 imbricating, condulicate sheaths with the uppermost leafbearing, articulated to the singel oblancolate, acute t oobtuse, fleshy, mid vein carinate leaf that blooms at any time of the year on and axillary, elongating, bialate to flattened above, successively 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence with an ovate-triangular bract..

I am not convinced of this determination and await more references. Differs from Icones in having vertical and lateral stripes

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Peru Vol 4 Schweinfurth 1961; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0189 Dodson & Bennett 1989;