!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]
Found in Antioquia, Risaralda and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and northern Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters at the edges of very wet montane cloud forests and is the type species for Miltonopsis as a small sized, cool to cold growing, epiphytic orchid from with erect, 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 that has small lanceolate bracts, arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying about 4 to 9, flat flowers.
Synonyms Miltonia vexillaria [Rchb.f]Nicholson 1886; Miltonia vexillaria var. leopoldii A.H.Kent 1892; Miltonia vexillaria var. rubella A.H.Kent 1892; Miltonia vexillaria var. stupenda A.H.Kent 1892; *Odontoglossum vexillarium Rchb.f 1867
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1874 as Odontoglossum vexillarium drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Miltonia vexillaria photos fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Miltonia vexillaria var leopoldii; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Miltonia vexillaria var radiata; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Miltonia vexillaria var madouxiana; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Miltonia vexillaria drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 23 #5 1959 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961 drawing plant only; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 8 1968; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 10 1978 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 13 No 3 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 # 5 1980 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 15 #1 Luer & Escobar 1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 5 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 6 1982 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 10 1982 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 461 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 10 1985 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 57 No 2 1988; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 57 No 4 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 9 1993 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 #3 1994 drawing fide’ Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #3 1998 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 as M vexillaria var alba photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 1 2005 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006; Orquideologia Vol 25 #1 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 71 No 1 2007 photo fide; Libro Rojo de Plantas De Colombia Vol 6 Primera Parte Saenz 2007 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 71 #1 2008 photo fide; Orquideología Vol 26 #2 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 9 2009 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #4 2010 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 28 #2 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #8 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #5 2017 M vexillaria var alba photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide; The Orchid Review Vol 1278 No 1330 June 2020 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
Miltoniopsis vexillarius var alba 1889
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 8 1959 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 # 5 1980 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 9 1992 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 23 #1 2004 photo fide;
Miltoniopsis vexillarius var semi alba 1889
Photo by © Patricia Harding
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