Sigmatostalix auriculata Garay 1968
Another Flower Angle Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Another plant Photo courtesy of Dr Gilberto Escobar Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
Flower from another angle Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website
Common Name The Auricled Sigmatostalix
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Caldas State, Colombia at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytewith narrowly egg-shaped pseudobulbs partially enveloped by several disitchous leafy sheaths and carrying a single, apical,inear, sharply pointed leaf that can bloom at any time of the year on an axillary, 2.8" [7 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence that arises on a newly matured pseudobulb qith well spaced flowers.
Synonyms Oncidium auriculatoides Chase & NH Wms. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; Orquideologia Vol 24 #2 2006 photo ok; 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 auriculatoides
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