Sigmatostalix hermansiana Königer 1999 Photo © by Rudolf Jenny
and The Epidendra Website Common Name Herman's Sigmatostalix [English Orchid Enthusiast and cultivator of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia without locality as a miniature sized epiphyte with broadly elliptical, strongly laterally compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 pairs of leaf bearing sheths and carrying 2 apical, oblong-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, acute, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, straight and ascending to arcuate-spreading, terete, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, paniculate inflorescence with the branches strongly reduced, with successive, very short, single flowered twigs, the peduncle with 2 distant, scarious, acute, close bracts and glumaceous, as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carrying mildly fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Oncidium hermansianum (Königer) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Arcula 8: 243. Koniger 1999 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #9 2006 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Oncidium/Odontoglossum Bakers 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Oncidium hermansianum
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