Telipogon phuyupatamarcensis W.Galiano, P.Nuñez & Tupayachi 2003

Photo by © Benjamin Collantes and LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 123–127 NOTES AND DESCRIPTION AMENDMENT OF TELIPOGON PHUYUPATAMARCENSIS (ORCHIDACEAE Benjamin Collantes & Carlos Martel 2016

Common Name The Phuyupatamarca Telipogon [The Type locality in Peru]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in central Peru in cold cloud forests at elevations of 3200 to 3700 meters as a medium sized [including the inflorescence], cold growing epiphyte with an erect or procumbent, with branches from the middle to the upper nodes, leafy, terete stem carrying a few distichous, subcoriaceous ovate to sublanceolate, entire margin, minute and irregularly papillose, apex subacute with minute mammillary papillae, conduplicate and amplexicaul below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, erect or procumbent, peduncle terete, racemose, 2 to 7.4" [5 to 18.5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with an ovate-deltate, amplexicaul, basal bigger than apical floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; LANKESTERIANA 16(2): 123–127 NOTES AND DESCRIPTION AMENDMENT OF TELIPOGON PHUYUPATAMARCENSIS (ORCHIDACEAE Benjamin Collantes & Carlos Martel 2016 photo/drawing fide; ; .