Native to Brazil (Amazonas)
Edited 26 April 2007
Originally published in Bradea, 2(24): 166 (1977)
Type specimen: Amazonas, Brazil collected by M. Mee s.n. Nov 1976.
Type collection flowered in cultivation
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This species is found in the hot, humid lowlands of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.
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Watercolor illustration at left by Margaret Ursula Mee.
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Note similarity of flower to Sobralia chlorantha Hooker.
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Margaret Mee (1968) Flowers of the Brazilian Forest, Collected and Painted by Margaret Mee. London: The Tryon Gallery
Margaret Mee (1980) Flores do Amazonas/Flowers of the Amazon.
Margaret Mee (1988) Margaret Mee, In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests, T. Morison, ed. Nonesuch Expeditions Ltd., 302p.
G.F.J. Pabst & F. Dungs (1977) Orchidaceae Brasilienses.; Brücke-Verlag Vol. II, pg. 208.
The Genus Sobralia by Delfina de Araujo
