Telipogon jimburensis Dodson & R.Escobar 1989 Photo by © Erica Moron de Abad © and Her Biorquidtropic Peru Lab Web Page

Common Name or Meaning The Jimbura Telipogon [A town in southern Ecuador]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in southern Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations around 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely bydisitichous, imbricating sheaths and carrying narrowl obovate, acute, apiculate, narrwoling towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on a terminal, erect, 3.6" [9 cm] long, flattened, successively 1 to 2, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate, congested, concave, boat-shaped bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planeatrum Tropicarum Plate 591 Dodson 1989 drawing good; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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