Sigmatostalix zimmermanniana Königer 2011

Photo © by Rolf Husenbeth

Type Drawing

Drawing © by Pongratz and The Epidendra Website

Part shade

Common Name Zimmermann's Sigmatostalx [German Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Colombia without locality as a mini-miniature sized, descending growing epiphyte with narrowly ovate, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped baslly by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, conduplicate leaf that blooms on a straight, thin, terete, .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long, shortly branched, few, successively single flowered inflorescnece.

Synonyms Oncidium zimmermanniana (Königer) J.M.H.Shaw 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Arcula 21: 458. Koniger 2011 drawing fide

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