Sigmatostalix putumayensis P.Ortiz 1991

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Common Name The Putomayo Sigmatostalix [A southern State of Colombia]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.4 cm]

Found only in Southern Colombia, Brazil and Peru in the Amazonas region at elevations of 250 to 325 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with egg to pear-shaped, flattened, pseudobulbs with sharp edges and basally enveloped by a pair of small leaf-beaqring bracts and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute leaf that tapers below into a short conduplicate petiole-like stem that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect to arching, 3 to 4 " [7.5 to 10 cm] long, shortly paniculate, several flowered inflorescnece with 1 to 2 flowers per short branch.

Synonyms Sigmatostalix amazonica var caicarensis Schlechter 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 186 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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