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Orchid Species: Telipogon standleyi
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Telipogon standleyi is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1925.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica on shady lower thin branches on mossy trees in wet montane oak forests at elevations of 1600 to 1900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with complanate, ascending stems carrying several, crowded, basal, sub-rosulate, narrowly lanceolate, acute, fleshy, more 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, successively single, loosely several [6] flowered inflorescence with scale-like, triangular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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