Sigmatostalix marinii Königer 1995 Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Common Name Marin's Sigmatostalix

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador on the eastern slopes at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot ot warm growing epiphyte with strongly flattened pseudobulbs with 2 sharp edges and is partially enveloped basally by several distichous, imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths carrying a single, narrowly lanceolate, thin, leathery, acute leaf that is longitudinally folded along the midline and narrows basally to a petiole-like stem that blooms on an axillary, arching to speading, more than one per, many successively flowered inflorescence arising from the axils of the leaf bearing sheaths of a recently matured pseudobulb

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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