Sobralia cataractarum Hoehne 1910 Photo courtesy of G.C.K. Dunsterville Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Cataract Sobralis [refers to being found at the river's Juruena edge where it was discovered]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in Brazil as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths carrying elliptic, acute, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, successively few flowered inflorescence

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good;

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