Sigmatostalix unguiculata C. Schweinf. 1940

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

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Common Name The Clawed Sigmatostalix

Flower Size

Found in Costa Rica at 975 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic to egg-shaped, strongly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricate, conduplicate leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong to oblong-elliptic, obliquely bilobed and rounded apically, shiny on top and dull below leaf that is conduplicate belwo and forms a petiole-like stem. This speceis blooms on an axillary, short, few flowered inflorescence with the flowers arising only on one side of the stem and arises on a newly matured pseudobulb..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006

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