Sobralia lacerata Dressler & Pupulin 2010
Type Drawing TYPE Photo Kerry Dressler/TYPE Drawing by © Franco Pupulin
Another Flower Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
Common Name The Lacerate Sobralia [Refers to the lip]
Flower Size 2.8" [7 cm]
Found in Colombia without collection data [1000 to 1800? meters] as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with clustereed, erect, purple spotted stems carrying in the upper half, elliptic-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, plicate leaves that blooms in the summer on an ellipsoid, generally with a foliaceous bract, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 as S bletiae photo fide; *Orquideología Vol 27 #1 pg 36 2010 drawing/photo fide;
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