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Sigmatostalix picturatissima is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.) in 1922. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium picturatissimum.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in very wet lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome carrying, flattened, ovate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 5 to 6 scarious, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that narrows below into a conduplicate petiole that blooms on a basal through the leaf axils, racemose, erect, 3 1/5 [8 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with tiny successively single flowers arising on a facile at each node occurring in the winter, spring and fall.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/5 inch [0.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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