Telipogon javiercastroviejoi Nauray & A. Galán 2008 Photos by © Nauray & Mamani, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Javier Castroviejo's Telipogon [Peruvian Biologist and original collector of Species current]

Flower Size .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm]

Found in Peru in cold cloud forests at elevations of 3000 to 3500 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a leafy throughout stem carrying a few oblong, acute to emarginate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, cylindrical to slightly trigonus, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, successively 1 to 2 at a time, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with an ovate-triangular, acuminate floral bract

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *An. Jard. Bot. Madrid 65(1): 80. 2008. .