IOSPE PHOTOS

Sigmatostalix guatemalensis Schltr. 1911 Photo Courtesy of © Jay Pfahl

Alba Variety Photo by © Arturo Carillo

Inflorescence? Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup? Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Another Flower? Photo by © Daniel Jimenez

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.

Synonyms Oncidium guatemalenoides Chasr & NH Wms. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 10 1966 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide for first 3 photos; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1161 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 9 2006 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium guatemalenoides; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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