Sobralia chrysostoma Dressler 2001 SECTION Abbreviatae
Photo by Hans Hillewaert
Photo by Allen Black
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Golden Mouth Sobralia [refers to the lip color]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 20 to 1050 meters as a small to large sized, hot growing epiphyte or terrestrial with erect 12 to 59" [30 to 150 cm] long stems carrying ovate-lancoelate, acuminate leaves with usually minutely verrucose sheaths that blooms in the late winter till early summer on a terminal, short, successively single flowered inflorescence
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 8 2001 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo good; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 1 Morales 2009 photo fide; Pl. Syst. Evol. 303: 868 Baranow, Dudek & Szach. 2017
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