Sobralia luteola Rolfe 1898 SECTION Abbreviatae
Inflorescence and apex of plant
Dissection of Flower Photos by © Siegfried Gust
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Yellowish Sobralia
Flower Size 1.4" [4 cm]
Found in Nicaragua and Costa Rica in tall evergreen forests at elevations of 100 to 1150 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on rock faces among mosses with erect, leafless below and leaf bearing towards the apex stems carrying ovate-lanceolate, plicate, 5 nerved, acuminate, articulate to the leaf bearing sheaths below leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a racemose, short, to successively to 10 flowered, 2 to 3 open at a time inflorescence with heavy textured flowers
Synonyms Sobralia pleiantha Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1169 Hamer 1984 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Pl. Syst. Evol. 303: 868 Baranow, Dudek & Szach. 2017
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