Telipogon standleyi Ames 1925

Another Flower Photos by © Nauray and Farfan, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name Standley's Telipogon [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Costa Rica on shady lower thin branches on mossy trees in wet montane oak forests at elevations of 1600 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with complantate, ascending stems carrying several, crowded, basal, sub-rosulate, narrowly lanceolate, acute, fleshy, morte or less erect leaves and a few scale like leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, branching, alatae, strongly flattened, succesively single, loosely several [6] flowered inflorescence with scale-like, triangular floral bracts

Similar to T lankesteri but striking different in being a smaller plant that has leaves at blooming and has much shorter glandular hairs on the column

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;