!Miltoniopsis vexillaria [Rchb.f] Garay & Dunsterville 1889
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Common Name The Flag-Like Miltonopsis
Flower Size 3 to 4" [7.5 to 10 cm]
The type species for Miltonopsis is an erect, small sized, cold to warm growing, epiphytic orchid from Antioquia, Risaralda and Valle de cauca departments of Colombia and northern Ecuador and is found at an altitude of 1000-2200 meters at the edges of very wet montane cloud forests with oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, ancipitous on the edges, gray green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost 3 to 6 being foliaceous and carrying a single apical, strap-like, acute, pale gray green leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a basal, lateral, slender, arching 12 to 20" [30 to 50 cm] long inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that has small lanceolate bracts and with about 4 to 9, flat flowers.
Synonyms Miltonia vexillaria [Rchb.f]Nicholson 1884 - 88; *Odontoglossum vexillarium Rchb.f 1867
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1874 as Odontoglossum vexillarium drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 10 1978 photo; Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 5 1982 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 6 1982 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 drawing/photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 461 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 4 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 9 1993 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 1 2005 photo; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
Miltoniopsis vexillarius var alba 1889
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 9 1992 photo;
Miltoniopsis vexillarius var semi alba 1889
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