Miltonia

Miltonia

Genus of about 15 species of evergreen, epiphytic orchids from warm, moist forest in Brazil. The produce ovoid to cylindrical, compressed pseudobulbs, each with 2 linear, oblong, oblong-linear, or oblong-lance-shaped, apical leaves. Leaves are slightly leathery, thin, hairless, and pale to dark green. Decorative, fragrant flowers, are produced in usually erect racemes from the bases of the pseudobulbs.

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