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Sigmatostalix lutzii is an orchid species identified by Königer in 1995. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium lutzii.
ORIGIN: Found in Bolivia near La Paz at elevations around 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with egg-shaped, strongly compressed pseudobulb partially enveloped basally by several distichous, overlapping folded sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect to arching, thin leathery, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf and basally narrows in to a folded petiole-like stem that blooms in the fall on an axillary, to 10 [25 cm] long, straight to arching, shortly paniculate, many flowered inflorescence arising from the axils of a newly matured pseudobulb and having several successive flowers per each branch.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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