Biology:Miltonia cuneata

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Short description: Species of orchid


Wedge-shaped miltonia
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Miltonia
Species:
M. cuneata
Binomial name
Miltonia cuneata
Lindl.
Synonyms
  • Miltonia speciosa Klotzsch
  • Oncidium speciosum (Klotzsch) Rchb.f.
  • Miltonia velloziana Ruschi & La Gasa
  • Anneliesia cuneata (Lindl.) Senghas & Lückel

Miltonia cuneata, the wedge-shaped miltonia, is a species of orchid endemic to southeastern Brazil .[1] Found in Brazil at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters in dense, wet montane forests as a robust, medium sized, creeping, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slightly tapered, slightly flattened pseudobulbs that can be clustered or well spaced and are enveloped basally by 2 to 4 non-foliaceous sheaths and carry 2 to 3, narrow, acute leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on a erect or arching, to 2' [60 cm] long, few to several [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, papery bracts.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q6861571 entry