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Orchid Species: Sobralia cattleya
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sobralia cattleya is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1877.
ORIGIN: Found in Colombia and Venezuela at elevations around 900 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, warm growing terrestrial with erect to arcuate stems depending on the terrain, generally leafy in the upper 2/3's stem enveloped mostly by smooth, tubular, leafless below leaf bearing above sheaths and carrying plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on to 4, axillary, stout, somewhat angled in section, paniculate, few branched, 3 to 4 [7.5 to 20cm] long, 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence with small green floral bracts and carrying cloyingly sweet scented flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 inches [7.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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