Sigmatostalix aristulifera Kraenzl. 1922

Another Flower Angle Photos courtesy of Oliver Lenhard

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Common Name The Short Inflorescence Sigmatostalix

Flower Size

Found Colombia to Ecuador at elevations around 1400 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong, compressed pseudobulb partially enveloped basally b yseveral distichous, overlapping bracts, and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a 9" [22 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence carrying several successive flowers arising on a newly matured pseudobulb.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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