Sobralia crocea (Poepp. & Endl.) Rchb. f. 1853 SECTION Abbreviatae
Plant and Flower in situ Ecuador
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Common Name The Saffron Yellow Sobralia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador in the lower levels of wet montane forests at elevations of 1700 to 2700 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or occasional epiphtye with a leafy stem enveloped by a few distant, tubular, acuminate sheaths and carrying suberect, lanceolate, sessile, acuminate, distichous, slightly plicate, sub-clasping leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 1 to 1 1/4" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively single few flowered inflorescence arising from several imbricating bracts that form a small cone carrying 1 to 3, fugaceous, small for the genus, flowers.
Synonyms *Cyathoglottis crocea Poepp. & Endl. 1836; Sobralia gracilis Schltr. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 305 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 8 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 #9 1999 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 572 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 9 1999 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drwaing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 8 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 6 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 12 2007 photo fide; Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Pl. Syst. Evol. 303: 868 Baranow, Dudek & Szach. 2017
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