Edited 18 May 2007
© Nina Rach
Sobralia decora and hummingbird plate by Gould
White Sobralia species:
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Sob. allenii - Panama
Sob. augusta - Brazil and Venezulea
Sob. beyeriana - Colombia
Sob. bimaculata - Colombia and ?
Sob. candida - Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
Sob. chrysostoma - Costa Rica
Sob. corazoi - Costa Rica, Ecuador
Sob. decora var. alba - Mexico
Sob. D'Orbignyana - Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Sob. elisabethae - Venezuela
Sob. fimbriata - Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru
Sob. fragrans - Guatemala to Brazil
Sob. gloriosa - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Sob. granitica - Venezuela
Sob. helleri - Costa Rica
Sob. kerryae - Nubes de Santa Elena, prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Sob. klotzscheana - Colombia, Ecuador
Sob. leucoxantha - Costa Rica & Nicaragua
Sob. "leucoxantha" - El Valle de Anton, Panama
Sob. liliastrum - Venez, Colombia, British Guiana, Brazil
Sob. lindeni - Ecuador
Sob. lindleyana - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama (Chiriqui)
Sob. macra - Costa Rica
Sob. macrophylla - Costa Rica to Brazil
Sob. maduroi - Panama
Sob. pardalina - Ecuador
Sob. powellii - Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
Sob. pulcherrima - Colombia, Ecuador
The watercolor at right was painted by the late Henry Queensborough Levy of Jamaica.
It is in the family's private collection.
Sob. rondonii - Brazil
Sob. sanderiana - ??
Sob. setigera - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
Sob. suaveolens - Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
Sob. undatocarinata - Costa Rica and Panama
Sob. valida - Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador
Sob. violacea - Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
Sob. virginalis - Colombia
Sob. xantholeuca var. alba - Mexico (Chiapas)
Three views of the same plant, a white sobralia blooming at an show in San Jose, Costa Rica, March 2002. Sepals and petals equally broad. Fine yellow markings on midlobe of lip and yellow calli. Flowers faded the next day.
Photos by Nina Rach.
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. . . Sobralia helleri, Panama - - - - - - - - - - Costa Rican Sobralia sp.
. . Photo at upper left by Andres Maduro - - - - - - Photo at right by Walter Schug, San Jose.
Robert L. Dressler (1993) Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama. Ithaca: Comstock Publishing Associates. pp.318-324, plate 35 [color photo of Sob. suaveolens].
Leslie A. Garay (1978) Flora of Ecuador no. 9: Orchidaceae. Opera Botanica, 305p.
Web References:
Costa Rican Sobralia macra,
photo by Walter Schug
Flowering sequence, from bud to open flower, two different white sobralias, labeled "Sobralia powellii" on a Japanese website
International Plant Names Index [IPNI]
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets by Chuck G.
"Die Gattung Sobralia Ruiz & Pav." - from Walter Schug's new website on Costa Rican orchids. [in German and Spanish]
