Sobralia aspera Dressler & Pupulin 2008SECTION Abbreviatae Photo by © Franco Pupulin

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Common Name The Rough Sobralia [refers to the black roughness on the leaf sheaths]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect, leafy in the upper third, lanceolate, acuminate, 9 principal veined beaneath, plicate leaves that blooms in the late spring through a group of terminal, enrolled bracts, subtended by a plicate foliar bract, successively single flowered inflorescence.

Similar to S leucoxantha but differs in the naturally occuring [not as evident in cultivated species] black roughened leaf sheaths, the fact that the flowers only arise of leafy stems, the floor of the lip is somewhat corrugated and the column has prominent, rather porrect arms.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 25 #2 2007 photo/drawing fide;

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