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| Close up of a single flower, note the strongly reflexed sepals and petals
Sigmatostalix picta
I found this little plant in many places along the trails in the Mindo area in Ecuador. Most of the plants I saw were in branches that had fallen recently during a storm that had very strong winds. The flowers are brightly colored. The floral parts are strongly reflexed so that the most notable thing at first sight is the colorful lip. The plant was also seen grown on the trunk of trees by the roadside and on a citrus tree that was growing over a small creek. The common feature of the areas where I saw this orchid is the high humidity. The local temperature never varies from a regime of 45F nights and 75 F days. The plant themselves are nice looking as those that were in places where they got very bright light had a reddish coloring in their pseudobulbs.
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| The orchid growing in situ |
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