Sobralia valida Rolfe 1909 Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website

Common Name The Valid Sobralia

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil in rain to cloud forests at elevations of 450 to 1850 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, glabrous, compressed, cane-like stems enveloped completely by tubular sheaths leafless below and leaf bearing in the upper third and carrying plicate, large, elliptic, abruptly acuminate, articulate to the stem leaves that blooms on a terminal, sessile, successive single flowered inflorescence arising through the cone-like, imbricating, white or greenish yellow bracts

This ID is suspect so use with caution! Should be brownish sepals and petals and a white lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as S sessilis drawing hmm; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 316 Dodson 1980 drawing not; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 1992 photo not; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing soso; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo hmmm; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo hmm;

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