Sigmatostalix tenuirostris Kraenzl. 1922 Photo by © Jay Pfahl.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens.

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Gilberto Escobar Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Delicate Rostrum Sigmatostalix

There are three different flowers represented here and mine seems to be closest to the described plant. Occurs in Colombia around elevations of 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly egg-shaped, bright, shiny, flattened, sharp-edged, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, dark green, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute leaf that is conduplicate basally and blooms in the spring on an axillary, 2 1/2 to 6" [6 to 15 cm] long, several flowered, paniculate inflorescence with the successivel single flowers arising in clusters on short branches

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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