Sigmatostalix hymenantha Schltr.1918

Another Drawing Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Part shade Hot Warm WinterSpring

Common Name The Delicately Flowered Sigmatostalix

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia on twigs and smaller branches at elevations of 50 to 950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic-ovoid, compressed psedupbulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 4 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, carinate below, acute leaf that blooms in thewinter and spring on a lateral, axillary, [4 to 20 cm] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with a cluster on brown membraneous, obovate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae: subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora de Retana 1999 drawing

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