
Sigmatostalix cuculligera (Schltr.) Garay 1972
Another Flower Angle Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Another Flower Photos by © Patricia Harding
Another Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Common Name The Cowl Carrying Sigmatostalix
Flower Size
Found in Antioquia state, Colombia at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong or egg-shaped, compressed pseudobulbs are partially enveloped basally by disticous, imbricating, longitudinally folded leaf-bearing sheaths and carries a single, erect, strap-shaped, acute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, erect, 1.6" [4 cm] long, several flowered, paniculate inflorescence arisng from the leaf axil of a newly matured pseudobulb with each short branch carrying a few successive flowers.
Synonyms *Roezliella cuculligera Schltr. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006
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