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
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 Lindl.
Synonyms
Miltonia speciosa Klotzsch Oncidium speciosum (Klotzsch) Rchb.f. Miltonia velloziana Ruschi & La Gasa Anneliesia cuneata (Lindl.) Senghas & Lückel

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