Sobralia lindeni

W.Watson 1895

Native to Ecuador

Edited 26 April 2007
© Nina Rach

Sobralia lindeni from Lindenia

Sobralia lindeni W. Watson

Originally published in Gard. and For. viii. (1895) 444.

Flowers are white, with wide petals and violet markings on the midlobe of the lip. Terminal inflorescences.

See the page on White Sobralias.

Illustration at left was published in the Lindenia as Sobralia lindeni.

Printed References:

Jean Jules Linden & Lucien Linden (English reprint) Lindenia, An Iconography of Orchids. [5 sobralias: Sobralia x Veitchii - vol V, p.292; Sobralia lindenii - vol IV, p.328; Sobralia violacea - vol III. p.34; Sobralia xantholeuca - vol V, p.106; Sobralia xantholeuca var. alba - vol V. p.226] all with

[French edition, 1885-1906, 814 plates in 17 volumes, Ghent & Brussels]

[English edition, 1891-1897, 312 plates in 13 volumes, issued in 78 parts of four plates each, published by Naturalia]

W.Watson (1895) ____, in: Gard. and For. 8: 444.

Online References:

ING: Index Nominum Genericorum, URL: http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/ing/ from the U.S. National Herbarium, Dept. of Systematic Biology - Botany, Smithsonian Institution

International Plant Names Index [IPNI], www.ipni.org

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