Sigmatostalix crescentilabia C. Schweinf. 1947

Another Flower Angle Photos by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Crescent-Shaped Lip Sigmatostalix

Flower Size 3/8" [.9 cm]

A warm to cool growing, Peruvian, small sized, epiphytic species at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters with oblong-elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs are partially enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single oblong-linear to elliptic-oblong, bluntly pointed leaf and narrow below into a long, longitudinally folded stem that blooms in the spring on an axillary, arching to spreading, 7 to 15" [18 to 37 cm] long, racemose, few to many flowered inflorescence arising from a newly matured pseudobulb with widely spaced, successive flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006