Miltonia cuneata
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.
| Wedge-shaped miltonia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Miltonia |
| Species: | M. cuneata |
| Binomial name | |
| Miltonia cuneata | |
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References
- Pridgeon, Alec M. (1992). The Illustrated encyclopedia of orchids. Timber Press. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-88192-267-7.
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