Sigmatostalix hirtzii Dodson 1998 Photo by © Hans-Gerhardt Seeger

Common Name Hirtz's Paphinia [German Orchid Enthusiast in Ecuador Current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in NW Ecuador as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with cylindrical, slightly swollen pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, sub acute, gradually narrwoing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, 3" [7.5 cm] long, well spaced, few flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3 acuminate bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol V Dodson 2004 drawing;

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