!Sobennikoffia robusta (Schltr.) Schltr. 1925
Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
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Common Name The Robust Sobennikoffia
Flower Size 2" to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm]
Found in northwestern Madagascar in sandy very dry woods at the base of trees at elevations of 1569 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial, semi epiphyte or epiphyte with a short stem carrying numerous, large, loriform, coriaceous and very unequally bilobed-obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the later spring on a 16" [40 cm] long, erect, rigid, loosely 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence enveloped by several sheaths carrying nocturnally fragrant flowers
Synonyms Angraecum robustum (Schltr.) Schltr. 1915; *Oeonia robusta Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 12 1980 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing hmm/photo fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
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