Sigmatostalix eliae Rolfe 1908
Another Flower Angle Photos courtesy of © Jay Pfahl
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name Elia's Sigmatostalix
Flower Size 3/8" [.9cm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters. Each oblong to egg-shaped, laterally compressed pseudobulb has 2 apical leaves and 3 sets of axillary leaves all green on the upper surface and purple and green on the lower surface. It blooms in the spring and summer on 1 or 2 per side, axillary, 8" long, bracteate, racemose inflorescence with several flowers.
Synonyms Oncidium eliae [Rolfe] Chase & NH Wms 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0172 Dodson & Bennett 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium eliae
Sigmatostalix eliae Rolfe 1908 var concolor
A single colored form of the previous species.
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