Sigmatostalix caquetana Schltr. 1924

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Common Name The Caqueta Sigmatostalix

Flower Size 5/8" [1.4 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in hot tropical rainforests at elevations around 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an egg shaped to elliptical pseudobulb enveloped partially by several distichous, imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect, racemose, 7" [18 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 185 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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