Miltonia cuneata Lindl. 1844
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Jean Claude George
and EARLY 
Common Name The Wedge-Shaped Miltonia
Flower Size 2 1/2" to 3" [6.5 to 7.5 cm]
Found in Brazil at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters in dense, wet montane forests as a robust, medium sized, creeping, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly tapered, slightly flattened pseudobulbs that can be clustered or well spaced and are enveloped basally by 2 to 4 non-foliaceous sheaths and carry 2 to 3, narrow, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a erect or arching, to 2' [60 cm] long, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, papery bracts.
Synonyms Anneliesia cuneata (Lindl.) Senghas & Lückel 1997; Miltonia speciosa G. Klotz, Otto & A. Dietr. 1855; Miltonia velloziana Ruschi & la Gasa 1975; Oncidium speciosum Rchb. f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 2 Pabst - Dungs 1977 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 10 1978 as Oncidium speciosum photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 9 1995; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 33 - 36 2057 - 2308 Brieger 1997 as Anneliesia cuneata drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Alliance Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #12 2015 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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