Sobralia

  • Authority

    Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.

  • Family

    Orchidaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sobralia

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Small to large, reed-like terrestrials and epiphytes. Leaves papery, plicate, sessile. Inflorescences terminal racemes. Flowers 1 to many, frequently showy, often produced sequentially, fugacious; sepals equal, spreading, connate at bases; petals subsimilar to sepals, usually broader; lip simple, retuse or 3-lobed, tubular, enfolding column, often undulate or fimbriate, the disc variously lamellate or lamellate cristate; column elongate, semi-terete, arcuate, narrowly winged at apex, footless; pollinia 8, granular or subceraceous.

  • Discussion

    Sobralia sp. 1

    Epiphytes with terete, stout, erect stems to 55 cm tall. Leaves elliptic, acute, stiff, 3 or 4 at stem apex, to 14 X 4.6 cm. Inflorescences terminal, solitary flowers. Flowers white with apical green blotch at midvein, the column green. Fl (Jul), fr (Jul). This species is known only from one fruiting specimen (Determann 126, CAY), for which field notes recorded flower color. Vegetatively, this species is most similar to Sobralia fimbriata Poeppig & Endlicher.