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Sigmatostalix cardioglossa is an orchid species identified by Pupulin in 2003. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Oncidium cardioglossum.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica in lower montane forests at elevations around 1050 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with elliptic-ovate, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 5, distichous, green flushed with purple-brown, some foliaceous sheaths carrying subcoriaceous, linear-ligulate, obliquely bilobulate apically, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a lateral, erect-spreading, slender, apparently secund, much longer than the leaves, to 8.8 [22 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with flowers subtended by papyraceous bracts and lanceolate, acute, scarious, almost as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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