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Orchid Species: Sobralia bletiae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Sobralia bletiae is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1852.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Surinam, Northern Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in rain and cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to warm growing, most often epiphyte and occasional terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying plicate, subcoriaceous, elliptic leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, successively single to 2 flowered inflorescence carrying waxy, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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