Sigmatostalix posadarum Königer 2001 Photos courtesy of Oliver Lenhard

Another Flower Angle Photos courtesy of Oliver Lenhard

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Common Name Posada's Sigmatostalix [Colombian Orchid Nurseryman, Medillin current]

Flower Size

Found in Antioquia state Colombia as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with egg-shaped, strongly compressed pseuodbulbs enveloped partially by several distichous, imbricating, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carryinga single, apical, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute, thin, leathery leaf that narrows below into a conduplicate short stem that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect to ascending, compressed laterally with 2 sharp edges, shortly paniculate, 5 to6" [12.5 to 15 cm] long, several successively flowered inflorescence with each branch carrying a single successive flower..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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