Sigmatostalix picturatissima Kraenzl. 1922

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Common Name The Extremely Colorful Sigmatostalix

Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in very wet lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome carrying, flattened, ovate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 5 to 6 scarious, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that narrows below into a conduplicate petiole that blooms on a basal through the leaf axils, racemose, erect , 3 1/5" [8 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with tiny successively single flowers arising on a facile at each node occuring in the winter, spring and fall.

Synonyms Sigmatostalix occultans Christenson & M.J.Lee 2002; Sigmatostalix racemifera L.O. Williams 1940

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 490 Dodson 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 Cos 1992; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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