Native to Colombia
Edited 18 April 2007
© Nina Rach
Originally published in Spanish by Ortiz. Named in honor of José Celestino Mutis, director of the Colombian Royal Botanical Expedition (1783-1816), a botanist-priest. According to Father Pedro Ortiz, Mutis had ordered this sobralia drawn, before Ruiz and Pavon's botanical expedition to Peru and Chile.
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Guillermo Angulo has written a very interesting article about the rediscovery and naming of this species; see the link below. On a trip to San Antonio de Tequendama, Enrique Uribe, Angulo, and Ortiz saw the plants flowering above 9,000 ft. Photos by Guillermo Angulo.
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When I first saw the photos, I thought this was
Sob. cattleya or perhaps
Sob. dichotoma. While it may be related to those high altitude species, it has now been published as a distinct species.
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Printed Reference:
Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso (2004) "Las especies Colombianas de Sobralia Ruiz & Pav., seccion Sobralia. The Colombian species of Sobralia Ruiz & Pav., section Sobralia," in: Orquideologia 23(1): 49-65. [Sobralia mutisii on p. 50]
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Orchid Research Newsletter No. 46 (July 2005),
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Guillermo Angulo (e-mail:
guillermoangulo@etb.net.co) "The naming of the Sobralia mutisii: A New Orchid Discovered in the Asphalt Jungle" translated into English by Juli Carbonell. Link
Original article in Spanish, published in El Tiempo, 11 Jan. 2004:
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ING: Index Nominum Genericorum,
URL: http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing/ingForm.cfm from the U.S. National Herbarium, Dept. of Systematic Biology - Botany, Smithsonian Institution
International Plant Names Index [IPNI],
http://www.ipni.org
