Sigmatostalix guatemalensis Schltr. 1911 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

Inflorescence Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dr Gilberto Escobar Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Guatemalan Sigmatostalix

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found from Mexico south to Ecuador in humid forests at elevations of 1100 to 1700 meters as a small sized, tufted, cool to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 1100 to 1700 meters with an ellipsoid or ovoid, compressed pseudobulb enveloped basally by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect-spreading, elliptic-lanceolate or ligulate, obtuse to subacute, subcoriaceous leaf and blooms in the summer, fall and winter on a erect to suberect, loosely several flowered, to [13 3/4" [34 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb from the leaf sheaths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1161 Dodson 1984

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