Sobralia hirta D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001 SECTION Abbreviatae
Photos courtesy of David Jubineau
Common Name The Bristley Sobralia
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Peru in cool, very wet montane forests, around 1850 meters as a medium sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial species with slender, leafy stems carrying elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the fall on a subsessile, single flowered inflorescence with short-lived, fragrant flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 762 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing ok; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 14(1) 2014; Pl. Syst. Evol. 303: 868 Baranow, Dudek & Szach. 2017
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