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Miltonia cuneata
Miltonia cuneata, the wedge-shaped miltonia, is a species of orchid endemic to southeastern Brazil.
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.
Miltonia candida · Clowes' Miltonia · Miltonia flava · Miltonia flavescens · Miltonia moreliana · Miltonia phymatochila · Regnell's Miltonia · Miltonia russelliana · Miltonia spectabilis · Pansy orchids
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Miltonia cuneata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
