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Orchid Species: Telipogon smaragdinus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Telipogon smaragdinus is an orchid species identified by (Pupulin & M.A.Blanco) N.H.Williams & Dressler in 2005.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica on shady lower thin branches on mossy trees in wet montane oak forests at elevations around 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Cold growing epiphyte with an abbreviated stem carrying 3 to 4, distichous, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate leaves that may or may not be present at blooming occurring in the winter on a mostly simple racemose, with successive secondary branches, terete, 2 to 4.6 [5 to 9 cm] long, flattened, successively 1 to 3, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute 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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