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Sigmatostalix putumayensis is an orchid species identified by P.Ortiz in 1991. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium putumayense.
ORIGIN: Found only in Southern Colombia, Brazil and Peru in the Amazonas region at elevations of 250 to 325 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with egg to pear-shaped, flattened, pseudobulbs with sharp edges and basally enveloped by a pair of small leaf-beaqring bracts and carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, acute leaf that tapers below into a short conduplicate petiole-like stem that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect to arching, 3 to 4 [7.5 to 10 cm] long, shortly paniculate, several flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2 flowers per short branch.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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