Miltonia flavescens Lindley 1841
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Joseph Dougherty
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Common Name The Yellowish Miltonnia
Flower Size about 3" [to 7.5 cm]
A medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte from Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Peru at elevations around 800 meters, with ovate-oblong, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 or 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, linear-ligulate, subacute or acute leaves which blooms in the spring through summer on a racemose, axillary from the base of the pseudobulb, erect or arching, to 14" [35 cm] long, 7 to 10, fragrant flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves and subtended by brown, membraneous sheaths and distichous, linear, acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms Cyrtochilum flavescens Lindley 1841; Cyrtochilum stellatum Lindley 1838; Miltonia loddigesii Regel 1890 publ. 1891; Miltonia stellata hort. 1841; Oncidium flavescens [Lindley]Rchb.f 1863; Oncidium stellatum (Lindl.) Beer 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 9 1995; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo
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