Telipogon butcheri Dodson & R.Escobar

 Telipogon butcheri Dodson & R.Escobar, Orquideologia 18: 278, fig (1993).

Telipogon butcheri Dodson & R.Escobar, Photo by Ronnie WU

its native range is Panama.

Latinh Name: 

Telipogon butcheri Dodson & R.Escobar. 

Synonym:

No

English Name:

Butcher's Telipogon (Collector of the type)

Description: 

With a short stem completely enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying several, narrowly elliptic, acute, conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, several flowered inflorescence.   

Distribution:

Panamá.

Ecological:

At elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

1 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants are difficult to grow in cultivation because of their difficulty in establishment. They require shade and cool to intermediate temperatures depending on the species. Plants require high air circulation to prevent fungal rot and constant misting. Water twice a week during the winter and heavily mist during the summer. Plants can be grown in sphagnum moss but are usually mounted. When mounting keep the plant loose on the slab as they do not like their roots bounded. Keep humidity high.

Type:

Collector Team:

H.P.Butcher

Type Herbaria:

holotype RPSC

isotype AMES

Distribution Of Types:

Chiriqui (Panama, Central America, Southern America)