Telipogon diabolicus Kolan., Szlach. & Medina Tr. 2016
Side View in situ just below Chingaza National park 2950 meters
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © Marta Kolanowska
Common Name The Diabolical Telipogon [Refers to column and lip which resemble the face of the devil]
Flower Size .75 to .8" [1.8 to 2 cm]
Found in Cundiamarca, Narino and Putomayo departments of Colombia in wet dwarf montane forests at the edge of the paramo at elevations of around 3180 to 3300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an abbreviated stem carrying 2, conduplicate, relatively fleshy, ovate-lanceolate to oblanceolate, attenuate towards the base, subacute leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, peduncle triquetrous, 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long, simultaneously 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with cucculate, ovate, acute, half as tlong as the ovary floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *PhytoKeys 65: 113–124 Kolan., Szlach. & Medina Tr. 2016 drawing/photo fide, doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.65.8674 http://phytokeys.pensoft.net; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #2 2018 photo fide;
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