Sigmatostalix huebneri Mansf. 1934 Photo courtesy of D. Fiske Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Flower Closeup Photo By Jay Pfahl

Common Name Huebner's Sigmatostalix [German orchid collector in Amazon early 20th cen]

Flower Size 1/3" [7.5 mm]

Found in Venezuela and Brazil in lowland humid rainforests at elevations of 120 to 140 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with elliptic-ovoid pseudobulbs subtended by a few shorter, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single apical, elliptical-lanceolate, acute leaf that is conduplicate towards the base and blooms in the springon an axillary, 4" [10 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and is slightly fractiflex. The Photos I took are the least likely to be this species but my Colombian friends swear that it is so.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Orchids of Venezuela: A Illustrated Field Guide Dunsterville & Garay 1979; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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