  We study the one-to-two phase-covariant telecloning of a qudit without
ancilla. We show that the fidelity of the two clones can reach that of the
clones in the optimal ancilla-based one-to-two phase-covariant cloning and
telecloning, i.e., the limitation of quantum mechanics. More interestingly, it
is a nonmaximally entangled state rather than the maximally entangled state
that can be used to realize such a telecloning task.
