General Distribution of the Genus

Edited 26 April 2010
© Nina Rach

Central America:
Belize map

Mexico: decora, macdougallii, macrantha, xantholeuca
Mexico MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Belize: decora, fimbriata, fragrans, macrantha, mucronata
Belize MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Guatemala: amabils, decora, fimbriata, fragrans, leucoxantha, macdougallii, macra, macrantha, mucronata, xantholeuca
See also: Guatemalan sobralias and Finca Sobralia, Petén, Guatemala. Guatemala MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Guatemala map

Honduras: decora, [possibly fenzliana], fimbriata, fragrans, mucronata
Honduras MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT
See photo of Sobralia in La Paz, Honduras by Gerrit Davidse (MOBOT)

El Salvador: decora, lepida, macra, macrantha, polyphylla, xantholeuca
El Salvador MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Nicaragua: decora, fimbriata, fragrans, helleri, lindleyana, luteola, macrantha, suaveolens, warscewiczii
Nicaragua MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Costa Rica (29 sp.): amabilis, amparoae, atropubescens, bradeorum, corazoi, decora, dora-emiliae, fimbriata, fragrans, helleri, kerryae, labiata, lancea, lepida, leucoxantha, lindleyana, luteola, macra, macrantha, macrophylla, mucronata, neglecta, pfavii, powellii, suaveolens, undatocarinata, warscewiczii, wercklei, wilsoniana
**See the BIMS database from Costa Rica [Biodiveristy Information Management System].
Costa Rica MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT
**See the Arenal Botanical Gardens website.

Panama (36 sp.): allenii, amabilis, atropubescens, bletiae, bouchei, callosa, chrysotoma, citrea, crispissima, fenzliana, fimbriata, fragrans, gloriana, kerryae, kruskayae, labiata, leucoxantha, lindleyana, macra, macrophylla, maduroi, mariae, mariannae, nutans, panamensis, powellii, recta, rolfeana, sanfelicis, suaveolens, theobromina, tricolor, undatocarinata, valida, warscewiczii
**See separate webpage at: Panama.** Panama MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

South America Map South America:

Colombia: atropubescens, biflora, bimaculata, cattleya, crocea, dichotoma, fenzliana, fimbriata, fragrans, gloriosa, klotzscheana, lancea, liliastrum, macrophylla, paradisiaca, powellii, pulcherrima, rosea, ruckeri, setigera, suaveolens, valida, violacea, virginalis
Colombia MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Venezuela: candida, cattleya, ciliata, fimbriata, fragrans, infundibuligera, liliastrum, macrophylla, oliva-estevae, paradisiaca, ruckeri, sessilis, speciosa, stenophylla, suaveolens, valida, violacea, yauaperiensis
Venezuela MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

The Guianas Map from Kew

Guyana: fragrans, infundibuligera, liliastrum, macrophylla, oliva-estevae, sessilis, stenophylla, suaveolens, valida, yauaperiensis
Guyana MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT See Also The Plants of the Guianas Checklist (Choose: Search)

Suriname: crocea?, fimbriata, fragrans, liliastrum?, macrophylla, sessilis, stenophylla?, suaveolens, violacea?
Suriname MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT See Also The Plants of the Guianas Checklist (Choose: Search)

French Guiana: fimbriata, fragrans, liliastrum, macrophylla, sclerophylla, sessilis, stenophylla?, suaveolens, yauaperyensis
French Guiana MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT
See also: NY Botanical Garden specimens from French Guiana and The Plants of the Guianas Checklist (Choose: Search)

Ecuador Map from GORP

Ecuador: biflora, candida, ciliata, corazoi, crocea, dichotoma, dorbignyana, ecuadorana, fenzliana, fimbriata, fragrans, gentryi, gloriosa, hagsateri, kermesiana, klotzscheana, lancea, lepida, liliastrum, lindeni, luerorum, macrophylla, madisonii, melanothrix, neudeckerii, oroana, pardalina, persimilis, piedadae, powellii, pulcherrima, rigidissima, rosea, setigera, sobraliodes, stevensonii, suaveolens, tamboana, valida, violacea, yauaperyensis
Ecuador MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT
See also: "Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador" (CVPE) from the W3Tropicos database at MOBOT.
El Pahuma Orchid Reserve, Pichincha Province, Ecuador - Three different Sobralias listed on the Orchid Species list compiled by Philip Myers

Peru: [fourth largest country in Latin America (+1,285,000 sq km) and the fifth most populous (ca. 24,000,000 inhabitants)] altissima, amplexicaulis, biflora, callianthe, candida, ciliata, crocea, dichotoma, dorbignyana, gloriosa, hirta, klotzscheana, leucoxantha??, rosea, ruarupaensis, scopulorum, setigera, violacea, virginalis, weberbaueriana, withneri
Peru MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Bolivia Map from GORP

Bolivia: buchtienii, dichotoma, dorbignyana, fimbriata, herzogii, scopulorum, setigera, suaveolens, "violacea"
See: Orquidario Villa Tunari, Cochabamba, Bolivia, by Helmut Heider & Wolfgang Reichl; and: Las Orquideas en Bolivia
Bolivia MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Brazil: augusta (Pará, Mato Grosso), cataractarum, fimbriata, fragrans, infundibuligera (Roraima and may be in Amazonas), liliastrum (Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Amapá, Pará, Pernambuco, Roraima), macrophylla, margaritae, pumila, rondoni, sessilis (Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Pará, Roraima), stenophylla, suaveolens (Amapá, Pará), valida (Roraima), yauaperiensis
Brazil MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT
"Sobrália is a small town in Brazil in the state of Minas Gerais, just west of the Rio Bahia. Its population in 2004 was an estimated 6,000 habitants. The name Sobrália came from a local Native American tribe referring to the flower Sobralia." (according to Wikipedia) It is approximately equidistant from Governador Valadares (to the northeast) and Ipatinga (to the southwest).This area is east of Serra do Cipo National Park, all of which is northeast of the city of Belo Horizonte.

Chile: NONE??
Chile MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Argentina: NONE??
Argentina MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Paraguay: At least one species and probably more. Paraguay issued a Sobralia macrantha stamp in July 1965.
Paraguay MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

Uruguay: At least one species. Uruguay issued a stamp featuring a white sobralia with dark pink lip in 1996. Uruguay MAP/Info and a more detailed Map from UT

I would like to keep these lists as accurate as possible. Comments? Send e-mail: Sobralia@autrevie.com.

This webpage was born in August 2000. Š Nina Rach