Miltoniopsis bismarkii Dodson & D.E. Benn. 1989 Photo © Lourens Grobler

Another Color Form Photo Courtesy of Dick McRill

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Common Name Bismark's Miltoniopsis

Flower Size 1.3" [3.4 cm]

Found in tropical rain forests at an altitude of 600 to 1800 meters in Ecuador and Peru with egg-shaped, laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of imbricating, distichous, lower leafless and upper leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, concave, keeled dorsally, acute, basally slightly narrowed light green leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a erect to slightly arching, axillary inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb that has a few [4 to6] flowers

Synonyms Miltonia bismarckii (Dodson & D.E.Benn.) P.F.Hunt 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;

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