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Orchid Species: Miltoniopsis vexillaria

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Miltoniopsis vexillaria is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) God.-Leb. in 1889.
Genus
Miltoniopsis (Mps.)
Grex
vexillaria
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) God.-Leb.
Year
1889
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ORIGIN: From Antioquia, Risaralda and Valle de cauca departments of Colombia and northern Ecuador and is found at an altitude of 1000-2200 meters at the edges of very wet montane cloud forests.

DESCRIPTION: The type species for Miltonopsis is an erect, small sized, cool to cold growing, epiphytic orchid with oblong-ellipsoid, compressed, ancipitous on the edges, gray green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost 3 to 6 being foliaceous and carrying a single apical, strap-like, acute, pale gray green leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a basal, lateral, slender, arching 12 to 20 [30 to 50 cm] long inflorescence that has small lanceolate bracts, arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying about 4 to 9, flat flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 3 to 4 inches [7.5 to 10 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Odontoglossum Odm vexillarium 1876 Rchb.f.
Add+ Miltonia Milt vexillaria 1886 (Rchb.f.) G.Nicholson
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Mps. vexillaria 'San Isidro' (2 awards from 2013 to 2017) Mps. vexillaria 'Alexandra' (2 awards in 2016) Mps. vexillaria 'Poul's Super Oscuro' (2 awards from 2010 to 2012) Mps. vexillaria 'Susana' (2 awards in 2009) Mps. vexillaria h.v. leucoglossa 'La Aldea' (2 awards from 1999 to 2006) Mps. vexillaria 'Haley Suzanne' (2 awards in 2006) Milt. vexillaria h.v. leucoglossa 'La Floresta' (2 awards in 1997) Milt. vexillaria 'Regal' (2 awards from 1988 to 1995) Mps. vexillaria h.f. albescens 'Summer's Edge' (2018) Mps. vexillaria 'Entre Flores' (2017) Mps. vexillaria 'Ivana' (2017) Mps. vexillaria h.f. alba 'Princess' (2016) Mps. vexillaria 'Mi Amor' (2015) Mps. vexillaria 'Lambeaulanum' (2015) Milt. vexillaria 'Maria' (2015) Mps. vexillaria h.f. albescens 'Lambeaveana' (2014) Mps. vexillaria 'Adele' (2013) Mps. vexillaria 'Summer Snow' (2012) Mps. vexillaria 'Volunteer Park' (2012) Mps. vexillaria h.f. albescens 'Summer Snow' (2012)
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Hybridizing Notes: Odtna. Brugensis remake - Howard Liebman by Andy Easton. Known as Odtna. Brugensis, this 1913 hybrid between Mps. vexillaria and Cyrtochilum edwardii, was remade by Howard Liebman and treated with colchicine if I recall correctly. I had a number of seedl... 0
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