Sigmatostalix lehmanniana Kraenzl. 1894

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

Part shade Warm Hot Spring

Common Name Lehmann's Sigmatostalix [German Orchid Collector 1800's in the Andes]

Flower Size very small

Found on the Pacific coast of Colombia on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations of 100 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with rather narrow, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 2.8 to 3.1" [3 to 8 cm] long, several flowered, paniculate inflorescence

Synonyms Roezliella lehmanniana (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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