Sobralia corazoi C.H.Lank. & Ames 1924 Photo by © Bill Temple

Common Name Corazo's Sobralia []

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Ecuador at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with erect cane-like stems with closely adpressed, tubercular, slightly verrucose sheaths carrying 2 to 4, towards the apex, distinctly alternate, coriaceous, sessile, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, the uppermost one reduced in size and bractlike leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, successively single flowered, cone like inflorescence with an abbreviated, closely imbricating bract.

CAUTION I am not convinced of this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

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