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Orchid Species: Telipogon nervosus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Telipogon nervosus is an orchid species identified by (L.) Druce in 1917.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in paramo at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a suberect to rambling stem carrying fleshy and fairly rigid, rugose but shiny above, duller beneath, shortly mucronate apically leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, slender, light green, to 10 [to 25 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with the lower flowers opening first .
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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