Sigmatostalix minax Kraenzl. 1922
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Common Name The Menacing Sigmatostalix
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid-ovoid, strongly compressed, ancipitous, green or suffused with brown pseudobulbs enveloped basally by foliaceous leafs sheaths that are the length of the single, apical, linear-lanceolate, subpetiolate, acuminate, thin-textured leaf with the midvein keeled on the back that blooms in the fall in Peru on an erect, fractiflex, paniculate, short branched, congested, to 12 " [30 cm] long, successsively single flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, aciculate, papery floral bracts and carrying a non-resupinate flower held well above the leaf and arising on mature pseudobulbs. This speceis can be distinguished by having a fractiflex, single flowered, paniculate inflorescence, a large transverse callus and parellel, incurved, horn-like labellum sidelobes
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 758 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006
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