Sobralia powellii Schltr. 1922 Photo by © Claude Lecourt and his Orchid Website
Another Color Form Photos courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
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Common Name Powell's Sobralia [American Orchid Collector early 20th Century]
Flower Size 4 to 6 1/2" [10 to 16 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru? in wet montane forests as a large to giant sized, warm to hot growing terrestrial on steep embankments or rarely epiphyte low on trees in pastures at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters with erect, cane-like, strigose stems carrying variable, papery, plicate, basally clasping, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms on a sessile, terminal, cone-like, successively single flowered inflorescence with imbricate, dark-scabridous floral bracts and carrying very large, fragrant, short-lived flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 11. Panama Schlechter 1922; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 312 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1172 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids VOl 5 Dodson 2004 drawing/photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo not = S setigera
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