!Sigmatostalix graminea (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb. f. 1852 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Plant and Flowers to MOSTLY to

Common Name The Grass-Like Sigmatostalix

Flower Size 3/16" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 550 to 1600 meters in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte with an elliptic-ovoid, compressed pseudobulb with basal, leaf-bearing bracts that are shorter than the single, apical, linear, bilobed leaf that can bloom on a axillary, 1 1/4"[3cm] long, few flowered raceme arising on a mature psuedobulb that is shorter than the leaf and occuring at any time of the year although mostly in the spring through fall.

Synonyms Petalocentrum angustifolium Schltr. 1918; Petalocentrum bicornutum (Rolfe) Schltr. 1921; Petalocentrum pusillum (Schltr.) Schltr. 1918; Sigmatostalix aurosanguinea Rchb. f. 1876; Sigmatostalix bicornuta Rolfe 1913; Sigmatostalix peruviana Rolfe 1910; Sigmatostalix pusilla Schltr. 1912; *Specklinia graminea Poepp. & Endl. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 587 Dodson 1982 as Sigmatostalix peruviana; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 570 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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