Sobralia amabilis (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1946

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Fritz Hamer Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Beautiful Sobralia

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found from El Salvador, Costa Rica to Ecuador in cool cloud forests at elevations of 1100 to 2400 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic or terrestrial orchid with 3 to 8, broadly lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, plicate, gradually narrows below into the basally clasping leaves with prominently verrucose leaf sheaths that blooms in the late spring through winter on a terminal, fascile, short, single to 3 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Fregea amabilis Rchb.f. 1852; Fregea wercklei Schltr. 1923; Sobralia lepida Rchb. f. 1866; Sobralia wercklei (Schltr.) L.O.Williams 1956

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as Sobralia lepida; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1490 Mora & Atwwod 1992

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