Sigmatostalix lutzii Königer 1995 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Walter Teague.

Another Flower Color Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Common Name Lutz' Sigmatostalix

Flower Size

Found in Bolivia near La Paz at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with egg-shaped, strongly compressed pseudobulb partially enveloped basally by several distichous, overlapping folded sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect to arching, thin leathery, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf and basally narrows in to a folded petiole-like stem that blooms in the fall on an axillary, to 10" [25 cm] long, straight to arching, shortly paniculate, many flowered inflorescence arising from the axils of a newly matured pseudobulb and having several successive flowers per each branch.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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