Sigmatostalix buchtienii Kraenzl. 1928 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Lip Drawing Drawing by © Vasquez
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Common Name Buchtien's Sigmatostalix [Orchid Collector]
Flower Size .1" [.25 cm]
Found in Bolivia and Peru in very wet forests at elevations from 950 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic herb with light green, egg-shaped, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several pairs of distichous, imbricating leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a pendant to arching, basal, racemose, to 5" [12.5 cm] long, several [8 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb.
Synonyms Oncidium buchtienoides Chase & NH Wms. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0171 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawaing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0373 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as S sp #2188 pg 965 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #9 2006 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium buchtienoides
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