The Sobralia Pages

Sources of Information on Sobralias:

Paul Hamilton Allen (1958) "Sobralia Intermedia," in: Bull. Amer. Orch. Soc. 27(8):534-535. [Sobralia decora; Sob. X intermedia; Sob. leucoxantha; Sob. liliastrum; Sob. lindleyana; Sob. macrantha; Sob. panamensis; Sob. sessilis]

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Paul Hamilton Allen (July 1965) "Preliminary List of the Orchids of El Salvador," in: AOS Bulletin : 627-631. [Sobralia decora, macrantha, sp. (Las Lajas)]

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Greg Allikas (May 2002) "Some Orchids Found in the Lost World: A Visit to the Gran Sabana," in: Orchids 71(5): 394-405. [Sob. augusta, S. liliastrum , S. stenophylla]

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American Orchid Society Bulletin:

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Oakes Ames and Donovan Stewart Correll (29 Aug 1952) Orchids of Guatemala. Fieldiana: Botany 26(1). Chicago Natural History Museum. 395p. [Sobralia decora , decora var. aerata - Panama , fragrans, macrantha, mucronata, xantholeuca, pp. 64-71]

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Oakes Ames and Donovan Stewart Correll (1985) Orchids of Guatemala and Belize. New York: Dover Press, 779 p. [Sob. decora Bateman ; Sob. decora var. aerata Bateman ; Sob. fragrans Lindley; Sob. macrantha Lindley; Sob. mucronata Ames & C. Schweinfurth; Sob. xantholeuca Hort ex Williams]

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Oakes Ames and Charles Schweinfurth (1922-1930) Schedulae Orchidianae. [Sched. Orchid.], Nos. 1-10. Boston, MA.

____ (1930) "Sobralia bouchei Ames & C. Schweinfurth," in: Sched. Orchid. 10: 4. [Holotype at HUH. Collected May 1930, in Panama, 2200 feet, by A. M. Bouché.]

____ (1930) "Sobralia atropubescens Ames & C. Schweinfurth," in: Sched. Orchid. 10: 2. [Type at HUH. Original plant from Pejivalle, Jun 1924.]

____ (1925) "Sobralia mucronata Ames & C. Schweinfurth," in: Sched. Orchid. 8: 54. [Holotype at HUH. Original plant collected at San Carlos, Costa Rica, Mar 1923]

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Frank J. Anderson (1981) Orchids: Abbeville Library of Art. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 112p. [Sob. macrantha , p.108-109 + book cover]

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Miguel Angel Soto Arenas (Dec. 1988) 'Updated List of the Orchids of Mexico,' in: Orquidea (Mex) v.11, p.273

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Miguel Angel Soto Arenas (1986) "El genero Elleanthus en Mexico y una nueva especie de Guerrero, Elleanthus teotepecensis. The new genus Elleanthus in Mexico and a new species from Guerrero, Elleanthus teotepecensis," in: Orquidea (Mexico), 10(1): 161-190 - illus., col. illus., key.

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A. Arango (1971) "Sobralias columbianas," in: Orquideologia 6(1): 25-29, 36.

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Joseph Arditti and Abdul Karim Abdul Ghani (March 2000) "Tansley Review No. 110: Numerical and physical properties of orchid seeds and their biological implications," in: New Phytol. 145: 367-421. URL: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/tansleyreviews/nph110.pdf [Sobralia decora; Sob. liliastrum; Sob. macrantha; Sob. shoenbrunnensis]

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Arcadio Arosema G., Roberto Estrada G., Cecilia De Jurado, Max Konanz M. (1988) Orchids From the Coast of Ecuador. Guayaquil: Asociacion Ecuatoriana de Orquideologia, 129p., 171 color photos [Sobralias pp. 93-99: Sob. atropubescens Sob. fragrans; Sob. macrophylla; Sob. powellii; Sob. pulcherrima].

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John Atwood (1989) Orchids of Costa Rica, Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicle 14, Plates 1301-1400. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Manuel Aubron (May/June 2006) "Orchids of Machu Pichu," in: Orchid Review 114(1269: 152-157. [Sobralia dichotoma photo on cover of issue; Peru]

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Michael J. Balick, Michael H. Nee & Daniel E. Atha (2000) Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize, with common names and uses. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 85: 1–246. The New York Botanic Garden Press. [Sobralia decora, fragrans, macrantha, mucronata]

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Kerry Barringer (1987) "Two New Species of Elleanthus (Orchidaceae) from Ecuador and Peru," in: Systematic Botany 12(1): 162-166.

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Kerry Barringer (1985) "Three new species of Elleanthus (Orchidaceae) from Central America," in: Brittonia 37(3): 286-290; map.

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Fábio de Barros & Gilberto B. Kerbauy (eds.) (2004) Orquideologia Sul-Americana: uma complição cientifica. Instituto de Botânico, São Paulo, Brazil. 15 articles by 21 authors; in Portuguese with English abstracts. [Gongora on cover; article on Euglossine bees]

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James Bateman (1838-1841) The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala. [orig publication, pl. 26: Sobralia decora ; Sob. macrantha ]

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H. Bechtel (1971) "Am Standort von Sobralia dichotoma Ruiz et Pav. in Machu Picchu, Peru," in: Orchidee 22(2): 42-43.

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Moisés Behar (1993) Orchids of Guatemala. ICONOS, The Guatemalan Orchid Society. 32 p. booklet.

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Moisés Behar and Otto Tinschert (1998) Guatemala y sus Orquideas/Guatemala and its Orchids. Guatemala Ciudad: MayaPrin/Trade Litho, 240 págs. [Book with CDROM; 261 species in 100 genera]

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Moisés Behar and Otto Tinschert (1998) Guatemala y sus Orquideas/Guatemala and its Orchids. Guatemala City: Bancafé, Edición bilingüe español-inglés, contiene CDROM. [CD sold separately]

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David E. Bennett and Eric A. Christenson (2001) Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, Plates 601-800. Lima: A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 400pp. unbound. [Five Sobralias: altissima, calliantha, hirta, ruarupaensis, withneri].

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David E. Bennett Jr. and Eric A. Christenson (1999) "Sobralia altissima," in: Orchids, 68(11): 1112-1113.

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David E. Bennett and Eric A. Christenson (1998) Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, Plates 401-600. Lima: A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 400 pp., unbound. [Sobralias on Plates 571 (candida), 572(crocea); Elleanthus on Plates 438 (caveroi), 439 (furfuraceous), 440 (lancifolius)].

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David E. Bennett and Eric A. Christenson (1995) Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, Plates 201-400. Lima]: A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 400pp., unbound. [Sobralias on Plates 380 (macrophylla), 381(rosea), 382(yauaperyensis); Elleanthus on Plates 230 (gracilis), 231 (koehleri), 232 (linifolius), 233 (lupulinus).]

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David E. Bennett and Eric A. Christenson (1993) Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum, Plates 01-200. Lima: A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 414 pages, unbound. [No Sobralias; two Elleanthus: Plate 031 (amethystinus), 032 (graminifolius).]

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David E. Bennett Jr. and Eric A. Christenson (1999) "Sobralia altissima," in Orchids, 68(11): 1112-1113.

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David E. Bennett Jr., Eric A. Christenson, B.A. Moises Cavero, and M.M. Leon (1996) "The sobralias of Tingo Maria, Peru," in Orchids 65(8): 820-825. [fimbriata, rosea, yauaperyensis]

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D.H. Benzing, D.W. Ott, and W.E. Friedman (1982) "Roots of Sobralia macrantha (Orchidaceae): structure and function of the velamen-exodermis complex," in: American Journal of Botany 69: 608-614.

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Biological Diversity of the Guianas, Plant Checklists. Smithsonian Website: http://www.mnh.si.edu/biodiversity/bdg/plants.html

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S. Blakey (1992) "Three species of Sobralia from Central America," in: Orchid Review 100(1181): 82-83.

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Dale Borders and Troy Meyers (199?) Dale's Photo CD, Vol. 1. 536 photos. http://www.orchidculture.com/COD/dbpcd.html

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T. Borgato (1997) "Il genere Sobralia, Ruiz et Pavon," in: Orchis no.122: 3-4.

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Botanical Register [see Samuel Sprunger, Ed.]

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PIS Braga (1981) "Orquideas das campinas da Amazonia brasileira novas ocorrencias para o Brasil e taxa novas para a ciencia," in: Bradea 3(23): 170-173.

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Brako & Zarucchi (1993) Catálogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Perú. Missouri Botanical Garden. [a preliminary checklist of Peru's plants, including nearly 1600 orchid species]

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H. Burgeff (1936) Samenkeimung der Orchideen und Entwicklung ihrer Keimpflanzen. Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. [Sobralia macrantha; Sob. shoenbrunnensis]

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Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann & Dipl. Biol. Sigrun Lange Collection list for Ecuador, Herbarium ECSF - Species List, Universität Bayreuth. [Elleanthus amethystinoides, aurantiacus, calanthum, flavescens, gracilis, oellgarrdii, Ollgaardii, robustus, sodiroi; Sobralia candida, ciliata, fimbriata]

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Rainer W. Bussmann (Sept 2001) "A Phytosociological Study of the montane vegetation of Reserva Biologica San Francisco, Zamora-Chinchipe, Southern Ecuador," 44pp, presented at an intl. conference: "Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon Basin - linking Science, NGOs, and Local Communities." On the "Nature and Culture International" website; URL: http://www.natureandculture.org/GermanResearchGroups/papers/AG%20Bussmann/Phytosociology%20ECSF/Phytosociology.PDF
[Sobralia fimbriata, crocea, candida found colonizing clearings of lower montane forests, 1800-2150m, northern end of Podocarpus National Park, southern Ecuador]

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H.M. Butterfield (April 1955) Orchids for the California Amateur. University of California College of Agriculture, California Agricultural Experiment Station Extension Service, Manual 18, 66p. [Sobralia leucoxantha, macrantha, xantholeuca on p. 51]

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Rafael Lucas Rodriguez Caballero, Dora Emila Mora, Maria Eugenia Barahona, Norris H. Williams (1986) Generos de Orquideas de Costa Rica. San Jose: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, 334p. [Elleanthus curtii Schlechter and Sob. lindleyana Reichb. f., pp. 80-83] watercolor paintings

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Kenneth M. Cameron, Mark W. Chase, W. Mark Whitten, Paul J. Kores, David C. Jarrell, Victor A. Albert, Tomohisa Yukawa, Harold G. Hills, and Douglas H. Goldman (Feb. 1999) "A phylogenetic analysis of the Orchidaceae: evidence from rbcL nucleotide sequences," in: Am. Jour. Botany 86: 208-224; Botanical Society of America, Inc. Abstract

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M. Cavero et al. (1991) Orquídeas del Perú. Lima, CDC.

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Eric Christenson (November 2007) "Notes on the Sobralia macrantha complex," in: Orchideen Journal 14(4): 159 (-162; figs.). Available online at brucerogersorchids.com. [Sobralia rogersiana]

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Eric A. Christenson (2003?) "Sob. boliviensis," in: Orchid Review - in press.

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Eric A. Christenson (2003) "Three showy new orchids from Ecuador," in: Orchid Rev. 111(1252): 243-246; incl. Sob. portillae on p. 244.

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Eric A. Christenson (Nov. 2002) "Three Sobralias New to Peru," in: Orchids 71(11): 994-1001. [One new species of Sobraliafrom Peru is described: Sobralia turkeliae and two others new to Peru are documented: Sobralia caloglossa; Sobralia mandonii, incl. f. coerulea]. Orchid Digest 64(1):24-25. [Color photos of Sobralia oliva-astevae, S. valida]

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Eric A. Christenson (1997) "Orchidaceae," in: Guide to the Vascular Plants of Central French Guiana, Part 1. Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, and Monocotyledons, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden 76(1): 286-342. [Color photo and line drawing of [Elleanthus caravata; also E. graminifolius, and unknown "sp. 1"] [Palmorchis pabstii; prospectorum] Sobralia fragrans; suaveolens; yauaperyensis; unknown "sp. 1", no Sobralia illus.]

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Eric A. Christenson (1991) "________," in: Lindleyana 6:131. [determination of Sobralia panamensis lectotype].

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Eric A. Christenson and J.K. Boggan (1996) "ORCHIDACEAE of the Guianas, in: Checklist of the Plants of the Guianas". Orchidaceae webpage: URL
[Sobralia crocea, Sobralia fimbriata, Sobralia fragrans, Sobralia infundibuligera, Sobralia liliastrum, Sobralia macrophylla, Sobralia oliva-estevae, Sobralia sclerophylla, Sobralia sessilis, Sobralia stenophylla, Sobralia suaveolens, Sobralia valida, Sobralia violacea, Sobralia yauaperyensis]

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Coletânea de Orquideas Brasileiras 7 (July 2009) 'Novas Espécies e um Hibrido Natural.' Published by Brasil Orquídeas. [Sobralia cardosoi, photo p. 254.]

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Benjamin Collantes M. and Marco Leon M. (2000) "Die Entdeckung der weltgrossten Orchidee Sobralia altissima," in: J. Orchideenfreund 7(2): 88-95.

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Benjamin Collantes and Marco Leon (1999) "Inquil-- Symbol of Carnival in Huachocolpa, Peru,' in Orchids, 68(11): 1102-1111. [Sob. altissima ]

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Colombian Orchid Society (1990) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 1. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A.

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Colombian Orchid Society (199-) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 2. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A.

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Colombian Orchid Society (199-) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 3. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A.

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Colombian Orchid Society (1992) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 4: Porroglossum - Zygosepalum. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A., 618p. [Sob. biflora Ruiz & Pavon ; Sob. bimaculata Garay ; Sob. cattleya Rchb. f.; Sob. dichotoma Ruiz & Pavon ; Sob. fragrans Lindley ; sob. klotzcheana Rchb. f. ; Sob. lancea Garay ; Sob. powellii Schlecter ; Sob. pucherrima Garay; Sob. rosea Poeppig & Endl.; Sob. suaveolens Rchb. f. ; Sob. valida Rolfe ; Sob. virginalis F. Peeters & Cogn. ; Sob. violacea Linden ex Lindley]

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Colombian Orchid Society (1994) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 5: Supplement AA-Lepanthes. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A., 842p. [Elleanthus species]

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Colombian Orchid Society (1994) Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 6: Supplement. Medellin: Compania Litografica Nacional S.A., p. 847-1069. [Sobralias on pp.1014-1019: S. crocea, S. violacea, S. uribei, S. macrophylla, S. rosea, S. atropubescens, S. cf. gloriosa]

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CONABIO Mexican species checklist - "Colección de Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas (UAM-I)" - Collection of Mexican Monocotyledons (UAM-I) Checklist [Sobralia decora, fragrans, macrantha, xantholeuca]

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CONABIO Herbario Sessé y Mociño: Plantas de la Real Expedición Botánica a Nueva España (1787 - 1803); The Herbarium Sessé and Mociño: Plants from the Royal Botanical Expedition to New Spain (1787 - 1803). Checklist [Sobralia decora, fragrans, macrantha]

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CONABIO (23 March 2004) "Fichas de Especies de Proyectos de la PROY-NOM-059-ECOL-2000: Plantas y Hongos," List [Sobralia lindleyana, mucronata]

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CONABIO "32. SOCONUSCO," Chiapas, Mexico, (in Spanish) [Sobralia macrantha]

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Pierre Couret (1982) Jewels of the Venezuelan Orchids. Caracas: Libreria Alemana Oscar Todtmann S.R.L., 104p. [Sob. fragrans ]

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G. Cremers, M. Hoff, D. Barthelemy, E.A. Christenson, Ly. & L. Leneveu, & Ch. & Cl. Pawilowski (1992) Inventaire taxonomique des plantes de la Guyane francaise II - les Orchidacees. Mus. Nat. Hist. Nat., Coll. Patr. Nat. (Ser. Patr. Genetique) 7: 1-144. [Elleanthus brasiliensis, caravata, cephalotus, linifolius, strobilifer; Sobralia fimbriata, fragrans, liliastrum, macrophylla, sessilis, stenophylla, suaveolens, yauaperyensis]

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P.J. Cribb, G. Lee, and J.J. Wood (Marzo 1981) "Indice de obras taxonomicas de Rudolf Schlechter en la revista Orchis 1906-1919 / Index to the taxonomic works of Rudolf Schlechter in the journal Orchis 1906-1919," in: Orquidea (Mex.) 8(1): 41-55+. [Sobralia malmquistiana, p.55; in: Orchis 5: 59, 1911]

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Curtis's Botanical Magazine

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Balayer M. Daubresse (2000) "Le genre Sobralia Ruiz et Pav. (1794) au Costa Rica," in Orchidophile 31(143): 162-168.

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K.L. Davies, M.P. Turner, and A. Gregg (Oct. 2003) "Atypical pseudopollen-forming hairs in Maxillaria (Orchidaceae)," in: Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 143, Issue 2, pp. 151-158. [Sobralia]

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Stirling Dikinson (1974) "El Parque Nacional de Montebello y sus Orquideas" (Mexico's National Park of Montebello and its Orchids) in: Proceedings of the 7th World Orchid Conference, Medellin, Colombia, pp. 69-80, in Spanish, with English summary. [Sobralia macrantha, decora; color photo of Sobralia xantholeuca, opp. p. 73]

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Die Orchidee:

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Margaret A. Dix and Michael W. Dix (2000) Orchids of Guatemala: A Revised Annotated Checklist. 61p. [Elleanthus capitatus, E. caricoides, E. cynarocephalus, E. graminifolius, E. hymenophorus, E. linifolius, E. poiformis; Sobralia amabilis, S. decora, S. fragrans, S. leucoxantha, S. macra, S. macrantha, S. mucronata, S. xantholeuca]

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Calaway H. Dodson Icones Plantarum Tropicarum.

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Calaway H. Dodson (Nov. 2004) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol. 5: Rodriguezia to Zygosepalum. Dodson Trust; 290 pp. [Sobralia hirtzii on pp. 971-2; figs. 2209, 2210]

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Calaway H. Dodson (2003) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol. 4: Oncidium to Restrepiopsis. Dodson Trust; 222 pp.

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Calaway H. Dodson (2002) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol. 3: Lepanthosis to Oliveriana. Dodson Trust; 232 pp.

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Calaway H. Dodson (2001) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol 2.: Dresslerella-Lepanthes. Dodson Trust; 212 pp.

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Calaway H. Dodson (1998) [9 new Ecuadoran Sobralia species] Orquideologia, 21(1): 22-44. [Sobralia ecuadorana, gentryi, hagsateri, luerorum, neudeckeri, oroana, piedadiae (originally as piedadae), stevensonii, tamboana]

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Calaway H. Dodson (1996) "Two new orchid species from Colombia," in: Orquideologia 20(1): 3-9 - illus., col. illus. [Elleanthus]

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Calaway H. Dodson (1988) "A list of the orchid species reported for Ecuador" in: Orquídeas de la costa del Ecuador, pp. 115-129. [55 Elleanthus sp., from E. amethystinoides to E. zamorensis; Palmorchis lobulata, P. pandurata, P. silvicola; Sobralia atropubescens, S. biflora, S. candida, S. ciliata, S. corazoi, S. crocea, S. d'orbignyana, S. dichotoma, S. fenzliana, S. fimbriata, S. fragrans, S. gloriosa, S. kermesiana, S. klotzscheana, S. lancea, S. liliastrum, S. macrophylla, S. madisonii, S. pardalina, S. persimilis, S. powellii, S. pucherrima, S. rigidissima, S. rosea, S. setigera, S. sobraliodes, S. suaveolens, S. valida; Xerorchis amazonica, X.trichorhiza]

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Calaway H. Dodson and David E. Bennett Jr. (1989-91) Orchids of Peru: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series II, Fascicles 1-2, 1-200. Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Calaway H. Dodson and Piedad Marmol de Dodson (1980) Orchids of Ecuador: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicles 1-4, Plates 1 to 400. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Calaway H. Dodson and Piedad M. Dodson (1982) Orchids of Ecuador: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicle 5, Plates 401 to 500. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Calaway H. Dodson and Piedad M. Dodson (1984) Orchids of Ecuador: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicle 10, Plates 901 to 1000. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Calaway H. Dodson and Piedad M. Dodson (1991) Orchids of Ecuador: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicles 5-6, Plates 401 to 600. Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Calaway H. Dodson and R. Escobar (1988) Orquídeas Nativas del Ecuador.

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Calaway H. Dodson and R. Escobar (1993) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol. 1: : AA-Dracula. Compania Litografica Nacional S.A.; 207 pp.

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Calaway H. Dodson and R. Escobar (DATE) Native Ecuadorian Orchids, Vol. 2:

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Calaway H. Dodson and A.H. Gentry (1978) "Flora of the Rio Palenque Science Center; Orchidaceae" in: Selbyana 4(2): 192-194.

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Calaway H. Dodson and Gustavo A. Romero (1993) "Three new orchid species from eastern Ecuador," in: Lindleyana 8(4): 193-197. [Palmorchis]

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Calaway H. Dodson and R. Vásquez Ch. (1989-91) Orchids of Bolivia: Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series II, Fascicle 3, Plates 201-300. Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Laurence J. Dorr, Basil Stergios, Alan R. Smith, and Nidia L. Cuello A. (Dec. 2000) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Guaramacal National Park, Portuguesa and Trujillo States, Venezuela. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, Vol. 40: 1-155. Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Sobralia violacea, p. 54.

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F.M. Dourado (1976) "Corymborchis veratrifolia," in: Orchid Digest 40(1): 12-13. color

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Kerry Dressler Orquideas de Costa Rica, CDROM. Produced by Lankester Botanical Gardens of the Universidad de Costa Rica and Bio-Photo Services, Inc., in English & Spanish.

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Robert L. Dressler (December 2005) "Six more new species of Sobralia from Panama," in: Orchids 74(12): 937-941. []

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Robert L. Dressler (October 2004) "The Sobralia undatocarinata complex: where have they been hiding?," in: Orchids 73(10): 774-778. [Sob. maduroi; Sob. sanfelicis; Panama]

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Robert L. Dressler (2004) "Zwei neue Arten von Elleanthus aus Panama. Two new species of Elleanthus from Panama," in: J. Orchideenfreund 11(2): 142-148. color

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Robert L. Dressler (2003) "Sobralia quinata, a new species in Section Globosae [Sobralia quinata, una especie nueva en la Sección Globosae]," in: Lankesteriana no. 6. p. 27-28.

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Robert L. Dressler (2002) "The major sections or groups within Sobralia, with four new species from Panama and Costa Rica, S. crispissima, S. gloriana, S. mariannae and S. nutans," in: Lankesteriana No. 5: 9-15.

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Robert L. Dressler (2002) "New species and combinations in Costa Rican orchids: 2.," in: Lankesteriana No. 3: 25-29. [Palmorchis]

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Robert L. Dressler (2001) "Two Sobralias," in: Orchids 70(8): 750-751, 770. [Sob. chrysotoma, Sob. leucoxantha]

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Robert L. Dressler (2000) "Mesoamerican orchid novelties: 3.," Novon 10(3): 193-200. [Sobralia purpurea]

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Robert L. Dressler (April-May-June 1998) "A New White Sobralia from Costa Rica," in Orchid Digest 62(2): 89-91. [Sob. kerryae; also S. leucoxantha, S. powelii, S. fenzliana = S. decora]

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Robert L. Dressler (1997) "Mesoamerican orchid novelties: 1.," in: Orquideologia 20(3): 253-265. [Palmorchis]

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Robert L. Dressler (1995) "New orchid species from Costa Rica," in: Novon 5(2): 140-145. [Two new sobralia species, with line-drawings: S. dissimilis, S. doremiliae; new spelling: S. carazoi - was S. corazoi]

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Robert L. Dressler (1993) Phylogeny and Classification of the Orchid Family. Dioscorides Press (Timber Press); 314 pages with 96 color photographs and numerous linedrawings. Hardcover.

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Robert L. Dressler (1993) Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 304 pp.; hardcover. [Sob. allenii; Sob. amabilis; Sob. atropubescens ; Sob. bletiae; Sob. bouchei; Sob. bradeorum; Sob. callosa ; Sob. corazoi; Sob. decora; Sob. decora var. aerata; Sob. fenzliana; Sob. fimbriata; Sob. fragrans; Sob. helleri; Sob. labiata; Sob. lepida; Sob. lindleyana; Sob. luteola; Sob. macra; Sob. macrantha ; Sob. macrophylla; Sob. mucronata; Sob. neglecta; Sob. pfavii; Sob. pleiantha; Sob. powellii; Sob. suaveolens ; Sob. undatocarinata; Sob. valida; Sob. warscewiczii; Sob. wercklei]

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Robert L. Dressler (1990) "The Neottieae in orchid classification." Lindleyana 5(2): 102-109.

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Robert L. Dressler (1987) Die Orchideen; translated into German by Dr. Guido Braem; published by Ulmer. This is the German translation of the 1981 Harvard University Publication: The Orchids: Natural History and Classification. Hardcover.

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Robert L. Dressler (1984) "Palmorchis en Panama: una nueva especie donde menos se le esperaba. (Palmorchis in Panama, with a new species where least expected)," in: Orquidea (Mexico), 9(2): 213-230; key.

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Robert L. Dressler (1983) "Palmorchis in Panama mit einer neuen Art, Palmorchis nitida, an einem unerwarteten Standort," in: Orchidee 34(1): 25-31; map and key.

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Robert L. Dressler (1981) The Orchids: Natural History and Classification. Cambridge: Harvard Univeristy Press, 332 pages, 95 color photographs and many black and white and line drawings. Available in hardcover and paperback.

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Robert L. Dressler (1980) "Checklist of the Orchids of Panama," in: Orchids of Panama. 590 pages (pp. I-XXVI). Missouri Botanical Garden. [Sobralia allenii, amabilis, atropubescens (was decora var. aerata), bletiae, bouchei, callosa, fenzliana (was panamensis), fragrans, labiata, lindleyana, macrophylla (was rolfeana), powellii (was leucoxantha), suaveolens, undatocarinata, valida, warszewiczii]

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Robert L. Dressler (1973) "Elleanthus capitatus - a name that must be changed, or is it?," in: Amer. Orchid Society Bulletin 42(5): 419-420.

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Robert L. Dressler and Diego Bogarin C. (September 2007) "Two attractive new species of Sobralia from Panama," in: Orchids magazine of the Amer. Orch. Soc. 76 (9): 696-701. [New: Sob. fuzukiae, mireyae. Mentioned with regard to Sob. fuzukiae: Sob. candida, lancea, pardalina, quinata, leucoxantha, nutans. Mentioned with regard to Sob. mireyae: Sob. macrophylla, leucoxantha, citrea, kerryae, kruskayae, theobromina, bouchei, wilsoniana]

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Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville (28 Aug 1987) Venezuelan Orchids. Caracas: Graficas Armitano, C.A. 127p.; English edition 1000 copies. [text and color photos of Sob. cattleya, Sob. infundibuligera, Sob. ruckeri, Sob. violacea]

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Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville (1980) "Sobralia Sessilis--An Orchid Hunt in an Orchid Herbarium," in: Bull. Amer. Orch. Soc. 49: 486-488. [S. decora, S. sessilis, S. valida, S. violacea; color photo of S. sessilis]

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Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville (1979) "Some Venezuelan Elleanthus species," in: Amer. Orchid Society Bulletin 48(7): 665-671; col. illus.

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Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville (1971) "Elleanthus capitatus, the jelly orchid," in: Orchid Review 79(931): 17-19.

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Galfrid C.K. Dunsterville (Aug 1964) "Auyantepui, Home of Fifty Million Orchids," in: AOS Bulletin 33(8): 678-689. [Elleanthus virgatus; Sobralia candida, fimbriata, fragrans, sessilis, stenophylla, + 2 other species]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and E. Dunsterville (1982) "Pinelia alticola and Elleanthus norae: a very short and a very tall story," in: Orchid Review 90 (1068): 322-324; illus.

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and E. Dunsterville (1981) "Orchids of Venezuela: Sobralia ruckeri: a jinx-afflicted beauty queen," in: Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 50(2): 176-180.

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and E. Dunsterville (March 1975) "Some Venezuelan Sobralias," in: Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 44(3): 193-199. [Sob. yauaperyensis, cattleya, infundibuligera, fimbriata, violacea]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1959) Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Volume 1. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawings of Sob. fragrans Lindley; Sob. sessilis Lindley; Sob. suaveolens Rchb. f.; Sob. violacea Linden]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1961) Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Volume 2. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawings of Sob. candida (P.& E.) Rchb. f.; Sob. liliastrum Lindley; Sob. yauaperyensis Barb. Rodr.]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1965) Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Volume 3. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawings of Sob. fimbriata; Sob. infundibuligera; Sob. polyphylla; Sob. stenophylla]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1966) Venezuelan Orchids illustrated, Volume 4. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawings of Sob. chlorantha; Sob. macrophylla]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1972) Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Volume 5. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawing of Sob. cattleya]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1976) Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated, Volume 6. London: Andre Deutsch Limited. [Text and line drawings of Sob. ciliata, Sob. paradisiaca, Sob. ruckeri, Sob. speciosa]

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G.C.K. Dunsterville and Leslie A. Garay (1979) Orchids of Venezeula: An Illustrated Field Guide. Boston: Botanical Museum of Harvard University, three white volumes, soft cover in a black slip case. [Sob. candida; cattleya; ciliata; fimbriata; fragrans; infundibuligera; liliastrum; macrophylla; paradisiaca; ruckeri; sessilis; speciosa; stenophylla; suaveolens; valida; violacea; yauaperyensis]

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Rodrigo R. Escobar [ed.], Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 4: Porroglossum-Zygosepalum. [see Colombian Orchid Society]

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Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana (not yet published) MOBOT. General Editors: Julian A. Steyermark, Paul E. Berry, Bruce K. Holst; Volume Editors: Paul E. Berry, Bruce K. Holst, Kay Yatskievych. Vol.7: Myrtaceae through Plumbaginaceae. Website: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/ven-guayana/welcome.html

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Flora Mesoamericana List, Searchable Index from the Tropicos Database at http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/index/mesoaS.html

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Ernesto Foldats (1969) "Orchidaceae," in: T. Lasser, Flora de Venezuela 15(1): 169-201. Caracas: Edicion Especial del Instituto Botanico. [Sob. candida, ciliata, dichotoma, fimbriata, fragrans, infundibuligera, liliastrum, macrophylla, paradisiaca, rosea, sessilis, speciosa, stenophylla, suaveolens,violacea, yauaperyensis]

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R.C. Foster (1958) A catalogue of the ferns and flowering plants of Bolivia in: Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 184: 1-223.

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J. A. Fowlie, M.D. (May 1967) 'Orchid Collecting in the Colombian Andes: Part I., Evolutionary Considerations,' in: Orchid Digest 31: 139.

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J. A. Fowlie, M.D. (Oct. 1968) 'Orchid Collecting in the Colombian Andes: Inferno-Paradiso on the Road to Jardines,' in: Orchid Digest v.32(8):251.

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J. A. Fowlie, M.D. (Jan.-Feb. 1969) 'Revelations in the Choco,' in: Orchid Digest 33:29.

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Claudio Nicoletti de Fraga and Ariane Luna Peixoto (2004) "Florística e ecologia das Orchidaceae das restingas do estado do Espírito Santo," in: Rodriguésia 55 (84): 5-20. [Sobralia sp. nov., liliastrum, sessilis]
Link: http://www.jbrj.gov.br/publica/rodriguesia/Rodrig55_84/15584.pdf

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John V. Freudenstein, Elizabeth M. Harris, and Finn N. Rasmussen (Nov. 2002) "The evolution of anther morphology in orchids: incumbent anthers, superposed pollinia, and the vandoid complex," in: Am. J. Bot. 89: 1747-1755. Botanical Society of America Inc. Abstract

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John V. Freudenstein, Cássio van den Berg, Douglas H. Goldman, Paul J. Kores, Mia Molvray, and Mark W. Chase (Jan. 2004) "An expanded plastid DNA phylogeny of Orchidaceae and analysis of jackknife branch support strategy," in: Am. J. Bot. 91: 149-157. Botanical Society of America Inc. Abstract

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John V. Freudenstein and Finn N. Rasmussen (Feb. 1999) "What does morphology tell us about orchid relationships? -- a cladistic analysis," in: Amer. J. Botany 86(2): 225-248. Botanical Society of America, Inc. Abstract.

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Leslie A. Garay (1974) "Orquideas Colombianas neuvas o criticas XII," in:Orquideologia 9: 133-141.

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Leslie A. Garay (Oct. 1975) "Orquideas Colombianas nuevas o criticas: decena 14," in: Orquideologia 10(2): 101-109, 111-114 - col. illus. [Sob. bimaculata]

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Leslie A. Garay (Jan. 1978) "Studies in American Orchids X," in: Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard Univ. 26(1):1-38. [Sob. fenzliana, luteola, powellii, warscewiczii]

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Leslie A. Garay (Dec. 1978) Flora of Ecuador: Orchidaceae, in: Opera Botanica, Stockholm: NFR, 305p. [50 Elleanthus sp.: 57-110; 24 Sobralia sp. on pp. 110-134: Sob. atropubescens, biflora, candida, ciliata, corazoi, crocea, d'orbignyana, fenzliana, fimbriata, gloriosa, kermesina, klotzscheana, lancea, lepida, macrophylla, pardalina, persimilis, powellii, pulcherrina, rigidissima, rosea, setigera, sobralioides, valida]

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Gardeners' Chronicle:

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Ted Green (1997) "Sobralias in Hawaii," in: Hawaii Orchid J. 26(1): 2-7.

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Ted Green (1999) 'Sobralias,' in: Orchids 68(9):912-921.

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William A. Haber (2001) "Plants of Monteverde: Orchidaceae" http://www.cs.umb.edu/~whaber/Monte/Plant/Orch.html, in: Monteverde Natural History http://www.cs.umb.edu/~whaber/Monte/MV/MV-3.html [Sobralia amabilis, atropubescens, bradeorum, dissimilis, fragrans, helleri, macra, mucronata, powellii, cf. warscewiczii]

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Eric Hagsater Gartenberg (15 June 1995 - 4 August 1997) "Informe final del Proyecto G024-- Diversidad y conservacion de orquideas de la region de Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico," <(text in Spanish) [Sobralia decora, fragrans, macdougallii, macrantha, mucronata, xantholeuca]

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Eric Hagsater and Gerardo A. Salazar [eds.] (1990) Orchids of Mexico, Part 1 Icones Orchidacearum Fascicle 1, Plates 1-100. 100 pages.

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Eric Hagsater and M. Soto Arenas [eds.] (2002) Orchids of Mexico, Parts 2-3, Icones Orchidacearum Fascicle 5-6, Plates 501-700. 200 pages. [Sobralia galeottiana; Sob. macdougalii nov.sp.]

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Fritz Hamer (1974) Las Orquideas de El Salvador I. Ministerio de Educacion, San Salvador, El Salvador. 374 p. [macrantha]

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Fritz Hamer (1974) Las Orquideas de El Salvador II. Ministerio de Educacion, San Salvador, El Salvador. 427 p. [decora, macra, macrantha, macrantha alba, macrantha purpurea, macrantha var. kienastiana, polyphylla, xantholeauca]

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Fritz Hamer (1981) Las Orquideas de El Salvador III. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, Florida. 304 p. [lepida]

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Fritz Hamer (1988) Orchids of Central America: An Illustrated Field Guide (A-L), in Selbyana 10(Suppl.):1-430. [Line drawings of: Elleanthus alberti, aurantiacus, caricoides, curtii, cynarocephalus, discolor, graminifolius, hymenophorus, poiformis, tonduzii, wercklei]

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Fritz Hamer (1990) Orchids of Central America: An Illustrated Field Guide (M-Z), in Selbyana 11(Suppl.):423-860 [Line drawings: p.594: Palmorchis silvicola; pp.764-781: Sobralia bradeorum, chatoensis, decora, fenzliana, fragrans, helleri, lepida, lindleyana, luteola, macra, macrantha, macrantha var. kienastiana, mucronata, powellii, suaveolens, triandra, warscewiczii, xantholeuca]

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Raymond M. Harley and S.J. Mayo (1980) Towards a checklist of the flora of Bahia: Scientific Names. [Sob. lilliastrum, S. rondonii, S. sessilis]

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Harvard University Herbarium (as of 10 April 2003), Index of Botanical Specimens.
URL: http://brimsa.huh.harvard.edu/cms-wb/specimen_index.html
[99 Sobralias listed: Sobralia allenii; amesiana; amparoae; atropubescens; biflora; bimaculata; bletiae; bouchei; bradeorum; buchtienii; callosa; corazoi; crocea; decora; decora Bateman var. aerata P. H. Allen & L. O. Williams; edwardsii; epiphytica; fenzliana; fimbriata; galeottiana; hoppii; infudibuligera (infundibuligera); klotzscheana; labiata; lancea; lepida; leucoxantha; lindleyana; luteola; macra; macrantha; macrophylla; mandonii; mucronata; neglecta; panamensis; panamensis Schlechter var. albiflos Schlechter; persimilis; pfavii; pleiantha; powellii; pulcherrima; rigidissima; rolfeana; rosea; roseo-alba; sancti-josephi; sanderae; semperflorens; speciosa; suaveolens; sulphurea; undatocarinata; valida; violacea; warszewiczi; wilsoniana]

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S. Helbsing, Markus Riederer, and G. Zotz (2001) "Cuticles of vascular epiphytes: efficient barriers for water loss after stomatal closure?" in: Annals of Botany, 86: 765-769. [Sobralia fenzliana; suaveolens]

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Fernando Hernandez (1628) De Rerum Medicarum Nova Hispaniae Thesaurus.

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W.H. Hodge (April 1964) "Paul Hamilton Allen: 1911-1963," in: Taxon, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 73-77. [Sobralia allenii; intermedia, et al.] Link to article

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Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1910) in: Relat. Commiss. Linhas. Telegr. Estrateg. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5, Bot. pt. 1: 38, pl. 27. [Sobralia rondonii]

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C. K. Horich (1993) "Die Heimat von Fregea amabilis Rchb. f.," in: Orchidee 44(5): 239-242.

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C. K. Horich (1992) "Zum Ratsel des synchronischen Erbluhens einiger Sobralia Arten," in: Orchidee 43(5): 210-212.

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C. K. Horich (1978) "Sobralia xantholeuca," in: Orchidee 29(5): 214 - 215 - illus.

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C. K. Horich (1975) "Las Sobralias: encanto lindo pero fugaz. (Sobralias: pretty but fugaceous charm)," in: Orquidea (Mexico) 5(7): 204 - 212 - illus.

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Icones Plantarum Tropicarum,(1980-1993) Series I. Published by the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

Fascicles 1-4 (plates 1 to 400), Orchids of Ecuador, 1980, were authored by C. H. Dodson & P. M. Dodson.

Fascicle 5 (plates 401-500), Orchids of Ecuador, 1982, was authored by C. H. Dodson & P. M. Dodson.

Fascicle 6 (plates 501-600), Orchids of Bolivia, 1982, was authored by R. Vásquez C. & C. H. Dodson.

Fascicles 7-9 (plates 601-900), Orchids of Nicaragua, 1982, was authored by F. Hamer.

Fascicle 10 (plates 901 to 1000), Orchids of Ecuador, 1984, was authored by C. H. Dodson & P. M. Dodson.

Fascicles 11-12 (plates 1001-1200), Orchids of Nicaragua, 1984, were authored by F. Hamer.

Fascicle 13 (plates 1201-1300), Orchids of Nicaragua, 1985, was authored by F. Hamer.

Fascicle 14 (plates 1301-1400), Orchids of Costa Rica, 1989, was authored by J. Atwood.

Fascicle 15 (plates 1401-1500), Orchids of Costa Rica, 1992, was authored by D. E. Mora & J. Atwood.

Fascicle 16 (plates 1501-1600), Orchids of Costa Rica, 1993, was authored by D. E. Mora & J. Atwood.

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Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, (1991) Series II. Published by the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Fascicles 1-2 (plates 1-200), Orchids of Peru, 1991, was authored by C. H. Dodson & D. E. Bennett, Jr.

Fascicles 3-4 (plates 201-400), Orchids of Bolivia, 1991, was authored by C. H. Dodson & R. Vásquez C.

Fascicles 5-6 (plates 401-600), Orchids of Ecuador, 1991, was authored by C. H. Dodson & P. Marmol de Dodson

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Index Kewensis (grey cards)

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ING: Index Nominum Genericorum, URL: http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/ing/ from the U.S. National Herbarium, Dept. of Systematic Biology - Botany, Smithsonian Institution

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Stephen W. Ingram, Karen Ferrell-Ingram and Nalini M. Nadkarni (19??) Epiphytes of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Sarasota: The Bromeliad Identification Center at The Marie Selby Gardens, 44p plus 20 line drawings. [Sobralia amabilis]

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M.L. James (1986) "Cymbidium companions in the western Cape. Sobralia macrantha (Lindley)," in: S. Afr. Orchid J. 17(1): 33.

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Rudolf Jenny and Lorenz Jenny (continuously updated) Litbul Version 8, the Orchid Bibliography on CD. The current version references more than 75,000 documents.

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Peter Møller Jørgensen & Susana León-Yánez (eds.) (1999) Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador in: Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden, 75: i--viii, 1--1182.
[Sobralia atropubescens, biflora, candida, ciliata, corazoi, crocea, dichotoma, dorbignyana, ecuadorana, fenzliana, fimbriata, fragrans, gentryi, gloriosa, hagsateri, kermesina, klotzscheana, lancea, lipida, luerorum, macrophylla, madisonii, neudeckeri, oroana, pardalina, persimilis, piedadae, powellii, pulcherrima, rigidissima, rosea, setigera, sobralioides, stevensonii, suaveolens, tamboana, valida, violacea, yauaperyensis, pp.757-759]

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Journal of the Horticultural Society of London:

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Julian Kenny (1988) Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean. Macmillan Caribbean, 88p. [Elleanthus caravata, cephalotus, dussii, longibracteata; Palmorchis pubescens]

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Andreas Korte (1997) Amazonian Gem and Orchid Essences. Findhorn Press, 112p. ISBN: 1899171916

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Charles Herbert Lankester and Oakes Ames (1924) "Sobralia corazoi Lankester & Ames," in: Schedulae Orchidianae [Sched. Orchid.] 7: 34. Boston, MA. [Isotype at AMES; collected in Costa Rica, La Fuente, Peralta, 4000 feet]

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Lankesteriana

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Eva Ledezma, Giovanny Ramirez, Nayive Pino-Benitez (March 2006) "Forest Orchids of the Choco Region / Orquideas silvestres del Choco," in: Lyonia 10(1): 17-31. [Elleanthus capitatus, steyermarkii; Palmorchis trilobulata; Sobralia decora, fragrans, klotzscheana, liliastrum, macrophylla, madisonii, pulcherrima, valida; Fig. 4 shows Sobralia pollinia]. URL: www.lyonia.org/downloadPDF.php?pdfID=2.396.&PHPSESSID=d3bb843e3094e7067d18e851731d8403

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C. Lemaire (1846) Flore des Serres

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Gérald Leroy-Terquem and Djohar Si-Ahmed (1991) Orchidées passion. Bordas.

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Marilyn H.S. Light (November 2007) 'Sobralia xantholeuca', in: Central Vancouver Island Orchid Society Newsletter, pp. 4-5, with photo. Weblink: http://www.cvios.com/Newsletters/Newsletter%20November%202007.pdf. Propagation and cultural information.

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Jean Jules Linden (1860's) Pescatorea, Iconographie de Orchidées. Linden was director of the Botanical Gardens in Brussels, and collaborated with horticulturists Planchon, Reichenbach, and Luddemann to produce this work. Published by M. Hayez in Brussels in 1860. Only 1500 copies produced. Printed on thick stock paper, sheet size approx. 12-3/4" x 17-3/4".

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Jean Jules Linden & Lucien Linden (English reprint) Lindenia, An Iconography of Orchids. [5 sobralias: Sobralia x Veitchii - vol V, p.292; Sobralia lindenii - vol IV, p.328; Sobralia violacea - vol III. p.34; Sobralia xantholeuca - vol V, p.106; Sobralia xantholeuca var. alba - vol V. p.226] all with

[French edition, 1885-1906, 814 plates, Ghent]

[English edition, 1891-1897, 312 plates in 13 volumes, issued in 78 parts of four plates each, published by Naturalia]

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John Lindley (1838) Sertum Orchiacearum (t.I)

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Lindleyana:

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Bernt Løjtnant (1977) "Neottioideae from Ecuador," in: Bot. Notiser 130. [Sob. candida, melanothrix, rigidissima]

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Bernt Løjtnant (1977) "Observations on the Elleanthus linifolius alliance (Orchidaceae) in S. America," in: Bot. Notiser 129(4): 445-453; Illus.

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Erico de Freitas Machado (2008) Historia do Patrimonio Natural do Espirito Santo Orquideas. Edited by Delfina de Araujo. Documenta Historica Editora Ltda. 120 pp. [Sob. lilliastrum, macrantha, violacea; Brazil]

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C.F.P. Martius (1840) Flora Brasiliensis. [Sob. lilliastrum]

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I. McLeish, N. R. Pearce & B. R. Adams (1995) Native Orchids of Belize, 278 pp.

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Rogers McVaugh (1985) Flora Novo-Galiciana: A Descriptive Account of the Vascular Plants of Western Mexico, Volume 16: Orchidaceae. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 363p. [pp. 292-294, incl. line drawing of S. decora] <

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Margaret Ursula Mee (1988) Margaret Mee, In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests: diaries of an English artist reveal the beauty of the vanishing rainforest. UK: None-Such Expeditions Press, quarto; 302pp., cloth. [paintings, sketches, and photographs taken on her expeditions]

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Margaret Mee (19--) Margaret Mee Portfolio.

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David Menzies (19--) Orchidées.

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Francisco Miranda (1996) Orquideas da Amazonia Brasileira / Orchids from the Brazilian Amazon. 191 pp., 200 color photos, separate editions published in English and Portuguese. [Sob. rondonii] Review

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Francisco Miranda (2000) "Orchids from the Brazilian Amazon." Available on CD [Boa Vista Orchids, Haines City, Florida]

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Dora Emilia Mora and John Atwood (1992) Orchids of Costa Rica, Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicle 15, Plates 1401-1500. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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Dora Emilia Mora and John Atwood (1993) Orchids of Costa Rica, Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Series I, Fascicle 16, Plates 1501-1600. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.

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J. Francisco Morales (2001) Orquideas, cactus y bromelias del bosque seco de Costa Rica (Orchids, Cacti and Bromeliads of the Dry Forest). Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica : Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, INBio, 162p. [color illus. of a white Sobralia spp. on pp. 94-95; Elleanthus longibracteatus illus. on pp. 56-57]

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Scott A. Mori, et al. (1983) The Botanical Review. New York Botanical Garden n.49, v.2. [Sob. lilliastrum]

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Native Ecuadorian Orchids
(1993) Vol. 1: AA-Dracula - Dodson and Escobar
(2001) Vol. 2: Dresslerella-Lepanthes - Dodson
(2002) Vol. 3: Lepanthosis to Oliveriana - Dodson
(2003) Vol. 4: Oncidium to Restrepiopsis - Dodson
(2004) Vol. 5: Rodriguezia to Zygosepalum - Dodson

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Henry F. Oakeley (1989) "A plant of Sobralia macrantha," in: Plantsman 11(3): 185-187.

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M.K. Oechslin-Merkel (1992) "Ethnopharmakologische Untersuchungen von Arzneipflanzen, die in der Volksmedizin der Kallawaya-Indianer Boliviens Verwendung finden (Sobralia violacea L. und Gunnera manicata L.)," Dissertation, Department of Applied BioSciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Nr. 9826. On the web at: http://www.pharma.ethz.ch/pharmacognosy/publications/phd.html

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Guadarrama Olivera, María de los Angeles (Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco) Ortiz Gil, Gonzalo (Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Edo. de México.)(2003) "Evaluación y análisis preliminar del proyecto flora de Tabasco, México," presented in the symposium on Estudios florísticos de México; Avances y perspectivas hacia el siglo XXI, at XV Congreso Mexicano de Botánica. [Sobralia macdougallii]. Abstract: http://www.socbot.org.mx/disco/resumes/res2t3.htm

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Orchid Digest:

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Orchid Review:

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Orchids of the Tropical New World CD-ROM, Compilation of Icones Plantarum Tropicarum (Series I & II) and Icones Orchidacearum collections. Lightbinders Inc. ISBN: 1-889175-00-5. http://www.lbin.com/cd_roms/orchids.html

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Orchis:

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Orquidea Mex.:

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Pedro Ortiz Valdivieso (1976) Orquideas de Colombia. Bogota, 233p. [color plates of Elleanthus cinnabarinus and a Sobralia sp.]

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Pedro Ortiz V. (1992) "Sobralia Ruiz & Pavon" in: Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 4: Porroglossum - Zygosepalum, pp. 534-539. [includes color photos of Sobralia ; Sobralia powellii Schlecter is featured on the front cover of this volume]

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Pedro Ortiz V. (1998) "Sobralia Ruiz & Pavon" in: Native Colombian Orchids, Volume 6: Supplement Leucohyle - Zootrophion, pp. 1014-1019. [includes color photos of Sobralia crocea; sp. -R. Escobar No.401; violacea; uribei; macrophylla; rosea; atropubescens; sp. -R. Escobar No.8197; cf. gloriosa; sp. -R. Escobar No.1124; Sobralia gloriosa Rchb.f. is featured on the back cover of this volume]

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Pedro Ortiz, V. (2004) "Las especies Colombianas de Sobralia Ruiz & Pav., seccion Sobralia. The Colombian species of Sobralia Ruiz & Pav., section Sobralia," in: Orquideologia 23(1): 49-65. [Sobralia mutisii]

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Mariano Ospina H. (1996) Orchids and Ecology in Colombia: To the Rescue of Paradise. 228p + Appendix 4 [Elleanthus - 52 sp.; Palmorchis - 5 sp.; Sobralia - 47 sp.]

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D.W. Ott and D.H. Benzing (1980) "Sobralia (Orchidaceae) roots: structure and function," in: Bot. Soc. Amer. Misc. Ser. Publ. 158: 84.

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Guido F.J. Pabst (1980) Flores do Amazonas/Flowers of the Amazon. [paintings and diary entries by Margaret Mee]

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Guido F.J. Pabst (1979) "Additamenta ad Orchideologiam Brasiliensem: 31.," in: Bradea 3(2): 11-12.

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Guido F.J. Pabst and F. Dungs (1975) Orchidaceae Brasiliensis. [watercolors by Margaret Mee]

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The Plants of the Guianas Checklist (1996) [Choose: Search]

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Joachim Prutsch, Anke Schardt, and Rainer Schill (March 2000) "Adaptations of an orchid seed to water uptake and -storage," in: Plant Systematics and Evolution, 220(1-2):69-75. [Sobralia dichotoma]

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Dr. A. Pulle (1906) An enumeration of the vascular plants known from Surinam, together with their distribution and synonymy. Leiden: E.J. Brill Ltd. [Sobralia sessilis, p.128]

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Franco Pupulin (1998) Manuel Antonio National Park-- Orchids. MesoAmerican Press, 75pp, soft-cover.

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Franco Pupulin (Mayo 2001) "Addenda Orchidaceis Quepoanis," in: Lankesteriana 1:128; 28 pp. [Sobralia macrophylla p. 21, 23; line drawing p. 22; S. decora p. 23] Lankesteriana article .pdf

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Franco Pupulin (Mayo 2002) "Catalogo revisado y anotado de las Orchidaceae de Costa Rica," in: Lankesteriana 4: 1-88. [pp. 70-71: Sobralia allenii, amabilis, amparoae, atropubescens, bradeorum, carazoi, chrysostoma, decora, dissimilis, doremiliae, fragrans, helleri, kerryae, labiata, lancea, leucoxantha, lindleyana, luteola, macra, macrophylla, mucronata, neglecta, pfavii, powellii, purpurea, suaveolens, undatocarinata, valida, violacea] Lankesteriana article .pdf

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Franco Pupulin (accessed 10 July 2003) "Orchid florula of Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Quepos, Costa Rica," URL: http://rbt.ots.ac.cr/revistas/46-4/pupulin2.htm [Sobralia decora description and Fig. 37]

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Nina M. Rach (June 2002) "Ancient Sands of Venezuela's Gran Sabana-- Typically epiphytic orchids adapt to growing in a terrestrial environment" in: Orchids, 71(6): 516-525. [Sob. augusta, S. chrysoleuca, S. elisabethae, S. elizabethae , S. granitica, S. lilliastrum, S. stenophylla; Elleanthus graminifolius]

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Robert A. Raguso and Oliver Gloster (1993) "Preliminary Checklist and Field Observations of the Butterflies of the Maquipucuna Field Station (Pichincha Province, Ecuador)." in: Jour. Res. on the Lepidoptera 32: 135-161. [sobralia thickets on hillsides]

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Edward Sprague Rand (1876) Orchid Culture. New York: The Rural Publishing. [Orchids. A Description of the Species and Varieties Grown at Glen Ridge... A Complete Manual of Orchid Culture]. Link to this book at the Digital Orchid Library, http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/orchids. Sobralias on pp. 389-390 (387-388 in db): Sobralia decora, dichotoma, fragrans, liliastrum, macrantha, macrantha splendens, Ruckeri, sessilis.

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Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (8 Oct. 1852) ____ in: Botanische Zeitung. Berlin 10:712-713. [Fregea amabilis]

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Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1866) ____ in: Beitr. Orch. Centr.-Am. 10, t.2. [Fregea amabilis]

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S.S. Renner, H. Balslev & L. B. Holm-Nielsen (1990) "Flowering plants of Amazonian Ecuador---A checklist" in: AAU Reports 24:1-241.

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Dora Emilia Mora de Retana and John Atwood (1992-93) Orchids of Costa Rica, Part 3 (Fascicles 15 & 16 of Icones Plantarum Tropicarum, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens). 100 pages each, Plates 1301-1400 & 1401-1500.

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Markus Riederer and Lukas Schreiber (1 Oct 2001) "Protecting against water loss: analysis of the barrier properties of plant cuticles," in: Oxford Univ. Press, Jour. of Experimental Botany 52(363): 2023-2032. [using isolated cuticle membranes of Sobralia fenzliana; Sobralia suaveolens] Available online at: OXFORD Journals online

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Rodriguez (Caballero), Rafael Lucas, Dora Emilia Mora, Maria Eugenia Barahona and Norris H. Williams (1986) Orquideas de Costa Rica [80-83].

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Isaias M. Rolando (1999) Orchids of Peru, no. 1 [CDROM]. 270 orchid species from 75 genera with Peruvian music in background.

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Isaias M. Rolando (1998) Orchids Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel: Field Guide/Orquideas Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel: Guia De Campo. 108p, 50 color photos, softcover.

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Gustavo A. Romero (July 1993) "Unique Orchid Habitats in Southern Venezuela, I. Inselbergs, lajas or granite outcrops" in: Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 62(7): 698-707. [Two lithophytes mentioned: Sob. yauaperyensis; Photo: Sob. cf. liliastrum (now granitica]

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Gustavo A. Romero (Aug 1993) "Unique Orchid Habitats in Southern Venezuela: II. Arbustales or white-sand shrublands," in: Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 62(8): 810-818. [habitat photo: Sob. liliastrum]

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Gustavo A. Romero (1998) Venezuela, Orchid Paradise. 128p., 60 color photos, 62 B&W plates. [Sob. liliastrum, Sob. paradisiaca, Sob. stenophylla, Sob. violacea, (Sob. yauaperyensis)]

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Gustavo A. Romero Gonzalez (2003) "The Sobralia liliastrum (Orchidaceae: Sobraliinae) complex in the Venezuelan Guyana," in: Harv. Pap. Botany 8(1): 115-129.

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Gustavo A. Romero-González (December 2005) "ORCHIDACEAE SCHOMBURGKIANAE --The Orchids Collected By R. H. Schomburgk in South America and the Caribbean," in: Harvard Papers in Botany 10(2): 231–268 [Sobralia sessilis] Link

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Gustavo A. Romero and German Carnevali Fernandez-Concha (15 July 2000) Orchids of Venezuela, A Field Guide (2nd Ed.). Caracas: Armitano Editores, 3 gray volumes in a purple slipcase. 70 extra drawings added to the 1050 previously published by Dunsterville and Garay in the original 1979 Field Guide, and taxonomic corrections.

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Gustavo A. Romero-Gonzalez, German Carnevali-Fernandez-Concha, Guenther Gerlach, C. Gomez (2000) "Novelties in the orchid flora of the Venezuelan Guayana," in: Harvard Pap. Bot. 5(1): 179-186. [Sobralia granitica on p. 184]

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José Roque and Blanca León (December 2006) "Orchidaceae endemicas del Perú," in: Rev. Peru. Biol., 13(2): 759s-878s. Link: http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/BVRevistas/biologia/v13n2/pdf/a145.pdf. [Sobralia altissima, calliantha, hirta, ruparupaensis, turkeliae, weberbaueriana]

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Royal Horticultural Society, Orchid Research Newsletter, published twice a year.
ORN 34 (July 1999) - 9 new Ecuadorian sobralias published by C.H. Dodson in Orquideologia, 21(1): 22 (1998), Sobralia ecuadorana, gentryi, hagsateri, luerorum, neudeckeri, oroana, piedadiae, stevensonii, tamboana
ORN 36 (July 2000) - Sobralia altissima D.E. Bennett & E.A. Christenson
ORN 37 (Jan. 2001) - Sobralia granitica Romero & Carnevali; Sobralia purpurea Dressler
ORN 39 (Jan. 2002) - Sobralia calliantha, chrysostoma, hirta, ruparupaensis, withneri
ORN 41 (Jan. 2003) - Sob. crispissima, S. gloriana, S. mariannae, S. nutans
ORN 42 (July 2003) - Sob. crispissima, gloriana, mandonii f. coerulea, mariannae, nutans, quinata, turkeliae
ORN43 (Jan. 2004) - Sobralia portillae
ORN44 (July 2004) - Sobralia macdougallii Soto Arenas, Pérez-García & Salazar
ORN45 (Jan. 2005) - Pedro Ortiz article on Colombian sobralias
ORN46 (July 2005) - Sobralia maduroi, sanfelicis Dressler; Sobralia mutisii P.Ortiz
ORN47 (Jan. 2006) - Sobralia hirtzii Dodson
ORN49 (Jan. 2007) - Dressler's article with 6 more Panamanian sobralias

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Hipólito Ruiz (Lopez) and José Antonio Pavón (y Jiménez) (1794) "Sobralieae," in: Flora Peruv. Prodr. 120, t. 26. - original publication of the genus Sobralia. Three species mentioned: Sob. amplexicaulis, Sob. biflora, and Sob. dichotoma.

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___ Rusby (1898) Jour. of Pharmacol., p. 29. [A plant of the distinct genus SOBRALIA collected by Prof. Rusby in the Andes, produces a pod which develops the odor of vanilla upon maturity]

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E.V.S.B. Sampaio, et al. (1996) Pes. Bot. Nordestina - Progressos e Perspectivas. [Sob. liliastrum]

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Sander's List of Orchid Hybrids, contents available online from The International Orchid Register (RHS hybrid database)

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Rudolf Schlechter (1911) "Sobralia malmquistiana," in: Orchis 5: 59. [nov.sp.]

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Rudolf Schlechter (1920) "Die Orchideenfloren der sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II. Colombia," in: Feddes Rep. Beih. 7.

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Rudolf Schlechter (1923) ___ in: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19:9. [Fregea wercklei]

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Schlechteriana:

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Schomburgk, Robert H. "Drawings of Guiana Plants (Dibujos de Plantas de la Guayana)," housed at the Botany Library, The Natural History Museum. A list of the orchidaceae illustrated by Schomburgk is included as an appendix to Romero's Dec. 2005 article in Harvard Papers in Botany 10(2):231–268. []

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Richard Evans Schultes (1940) "Sobralia macrantha in Oaxaca," in: Amer. Orch. Soc. Bull. 9: 88-89.

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Richard Evans Schultes (1956) "A new species of Epistephium from Colombia," in: Amer. Orch. Soc. Bull. 25: 259-262.

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Richard Evans Schultes (1960) Native Orchids of Trinidad and Tobago. Oxford: Pergamon Press Inc., 275p. [Elleanthus capitatus; Palmorchis pubescens]

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Richard Evans Schultes and Maria Jose Nemry von Thenen de Jaramillo-Arango (1998) The Journals of Hipólito Ruiz: Spanish Botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Portland: Timber Press, 357p. [Sob. amplexicaulis Ruiz & Pavon 1798; Sob. biflora Ruiz & Pavon 1798; Sob. dichotoma Ruiz & Pavon 1798]

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Richard Evans Schultes and Arthur Stanley Pease (1963) Generic Names of Orchids, Their Origin and Meaning. New York: Academic Press. 331pp. (Sobralia text p. 290, illus. of Sobralia panamensis p. 291, Plate S-10; Elleanthus text p. 126, illus. of Elleanthus capitatus p. 127, Plate E-1; Palmorchis text p. 229, illus. of Palmorchis pandurata p. 230, Plate P-2)

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Charles Schweinfurth (1938) "Sobralia undatocarinata," in: Botanical Museum Leaflets (Bot. Mus. Leafl.) 6: 197. [Holotype at AMES; sheet has a floral drawing by Schweinfurth]

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Charles Schweinfurth (1958-1961, 1970) Orchids of Peru. Volumes 1-3, plus supplement. Chicago, Fieldiana, Botany.

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Charles Schweinfurth (April 9, 1958) Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru, in: Fieldiana, Botany, 30(1): 68-77. [Sobralia amplexicaulis, biflora, candida, crocea, dichotoma, d'orbignyana, fimbriata, klotzscheana, leucoxantha, rosea, scopulorum, setigera, violacea, weberbaueriana]

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Charles Schweinfurth (1961) "Sobralia speciosa," in: Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) [Bot. Mus. Leafl.] 19: 198. [Publication of holotype; HUH sheet]

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Charles Schweinfurth (1967) Orchidaceae of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 14(3): 69-214. [Sobralia biflora, candida, dichotoma, fimbriata, fragrans, infundibuligera, liliastrum, macrophylla, pumila, speciosa, stenophylla, violacea, yauaperyensis p. 86]

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Charles Schweinfurth (Dec 30, 1970) First Supplement to the Orchids of Peru, in: Fieldiana, Botany, 33(1): 1-80. [Sobralia ciliata, sessilis]

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Seemann (1854) "Reichenbach fil's list of species for the Isthmus of Panama' in: Bot. Voy. Herald, pp. 214-215. [Sobralia fenzliana, "on trees"]

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SEL Herbarium: Marie Selby Gardens, Florida, list of herbarium type sheets: Sobralia dissimilis, Sobralia madisonii. Other type sheets for Sobralia relatives: Elleanthus aristatus (Ecuador); Elleanthus carnevalii (Ecuador).

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Selbyana:

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Tom Sheehan and Marion Sheehan (Jan. 1999) Orchid Genera Illustrated: 186. Elleanthus. Orchids 68(1): 38-39.

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Tom Sheehan and Marion Sheehan (Jan. 1993) Orchid Genera Illustrated: 150. Sobralia. Orchids 62(1): 42-43. ["Species in cultivation:Sob. cattleya, S. decora, S. dichotoma, S. macrantha, S. violacea, S. yauaperyensis"; color drawing of Sob. yauaperyensis]

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Manoela Ferreira F. da Silva, João Batista F. da Silva, A.E.S. Rocha, F.P.M. Oliveira, L.S.B. Goncalves, M.F. da Silva, and O.H.A. de Queiroz (1995). Inventario da familia Orchidaceae na Amazonia Brasileira: parte 1. (Preliminary results of an inventory of the Orchidaceae family in the Brazilian Amazon.) Acta Bot. Brasil. 9(1): 163-175.

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Manoela Ferreira da Silva e João Batista F. da Silva (Year?) Orquídeas Nativas da Amazônia Brasileira II. 540 pp. Somente em português / Only in Portuguese.

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Gaspar A. Silvera (2003) Cultivo de Orquideas en Climas Tropicales. Panama. 207p. [color, pg. 136: Sobralia decora; macrophylla; color, pg. 156: Sobralia fragrans; color, pg. 169: Sobralia callosa; pg. 175: Sobralia altissima]

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M.A. Soto Arenas (1986) "El genero Elleanthus en Mexico y una nueva especie de Guerrero, Elleanthus teotepecensis. The new genus Elleanthus in Mexico and a new species from Guerrero, Elleanthus teotepecensis," in: Orquidea (Mexico) 10(1): 161-190; key.

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D.L. Szlachetko (1996) "New Elleanthus species from Peru," in: Orchidee suppl. 3: 23-28. Color

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David N. Smith and Timothy J. Killeen (31 March 1994) "Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Serranía de Pilón Lajas and the Adjacent Piedmont, Ballivian Province, Beni, Bolivia." Published online in .pdf format at MOBOT.

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M. and C. Angel Soto Arenas (30 Nov 1998 - 30 Sept. 2001) "Diversidad de orquideas en la region El Momon-Margaritas-Montebello," central Chiapas, Mexico. (text in Spanish) [Sobralia macdougallii, sp. aff. powelii, x veitchii, xantholeuca, macrantha, fragrans, macra, galeottiana, mucronata, lindleyana]

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Samuel Sprunger [Ed.] (1991) Orchids from the Botanical Register 1815--1847. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 2 Volume set. [Sob. macrantha; Sob. sessilis Lindley ]

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Samuel Sprunger [Ed.] (19--) Orchids from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.

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Paul C. Standley (Jan. 31, 1928) Flora of the Panama Canal Zone, in: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Vol. 27. Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin of the U.S. National Museum. [Sobralia fragrans, macrophylla, panamensis, powellii, suaveolens, p. 129-132; synonyms: Sob. epiphytica is Sob. suaveolens, and Sob. rolfeana is Sob. macrophylla]

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W.D. Stevens, Carmen Ulloa Ulloa, Amy Pool & Olga Martha Montiel (editores) (2001) Flora de Nicaragua -- Orchidaceae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. 85: 1–2666. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, in Spanish and Latin.
[Sobralia bradeorum, chatoensis, decora, fenzliana, fragrans, helleri, lindleyana, luteola, macrantha, mucronata, powellii, suaveolens, triandra, warscewiczii; pp.1829-1834]

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Ruth L.A. Stiff (1996) Margaret Mee: Return to the Amazon. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, 201pp.

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D.L. Szlachetko (1996) "New Elleanthus species from Peru," in: Orchidee suppl.3: 23-28 (1996) - illus., col. illus.

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Daniel Tessmer (2002) "Sobralia macrantha," in: Journal Fur Den Orchideenfreund Jahrgang 9, Heft 2 - 2.Quartal, pp. 117-119. [in German, with two color photos]

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H. Teuscher (1965) "Sobralia mucronata and S. lindleyana," in: American Orchid Society Bulletin, 34(11):994-997. [includes black & white photos of flowers and plants of both species].

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J. Carlos Trejo-Torres and James D Ackerman (June 2001) "Biogeography of the Antilles based on a parsimony analysis of orchid distributions," in: Journal of Biogeography Vol. 28, Issue 6, pp. 775-794. [Elleanthus]

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TROPICOS - Madidi Project, Bolivia Web-Searchable List of Taxa for Madid National Park, Department of La Paz, provinces of Franz Tamayo and Iturralde. [Elleanthus graminifolius; Sobralia dichotoma]

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TROPICOS - VAST Web-searchable (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database.

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TROPICOS - W3CEC Web-Searchable Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Ecuador. [Elleanthus; Sobralia atropubescens, biflora, candida, ciliata, corazoi, crocea, dichotoma, dorbignyana, ecuadoriana, fenzliana, fimbriata, fragrans, gentryi, gloriosa, hagsateri, kermesiana, klotzscheana, lancea, lepida, luerorum, macrophylla, madisonii, neudeckeri, oroana, pardalina, persimilis, piedadae, powellii, pulcherrima, rigidissima, rosea, setigera, sobralioides, stevensonii, suaveolens, tamboana, valida, violacea, yauaperyensis]

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Juul A.C. van Dam (2002) "The Guyanan Plant Collections of Robert and Richard Schomburgk," in Flora of the Guyanas, Supp. Series Fascicle 3, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK. Edited by M.J. Jansen-Jacobs; 211 pp., map. [Index 6, p. 199: Sobralia liliasrum (TYPE), sessilis, stenophylla (TYPE)].

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Cesar C. Vargas (Nov. 1965) "Orchids of Machupicchu (Peru)," in: American Orchid Society Bulletin, 34(11): 960-963 [English version]; 964-966 [Spanish version] (great color photo on cover of this issue).

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R. Vasquez Ch. and P.L. Ibisch (eds.) (2004) Orquídeas de Bolivia: Diversidad y estado de conservación. Vol. II, Laeliinae - Polystachyinae - Sobraliinae, con actualización y complementación de Pleurothallidiinae. 2nd ed. Editorial Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (F.A.N.), Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. 649 p. [Spanish & English; S. violacea and S. yauaperyensis are treated as separate species]

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Hendrik J. Venter (2004) "Orchids in the Garden 1. The genus Sobralia," in: Orchids South Africa 2004, South African Orchid Council vol. 35. http://www.saoc.co.za/journal.htm.

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Y. Veyret (1981) "Quelques aspects du pistil et de son devenir chez quelques Sobraliinae (Orchidaceae) de Guyane," in: Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Nat., Adansonia 3(1): 75-83. [Elleanthus; Palmorchis; Sobralia]

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Y. Veyret (1978) "Deux especes nouvelles du genre Palmorchis Barb. Rodr. (Orchidaceae), [Two new species of Palmorchis]" in: Adansonia 17(4): 495-502.

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Y. Veyret and D.L. Szlachetko (1995) "A new species of Palmorchis (Orchidaceae) from Colombia," in: Fragm. Flor. Geobot. 40(2): 889-891.

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James Watson, Ed. (Aug 1998) "Sobralias for Summer Color," in: Orchids 67(8):797. [with photo of Sob. macrantha 'Voodoo Priestess' AM/AOS, grown by Neal Crosswhite]

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Marga C.M. Werkhoven (1986) Orchideeen van Suriname / Orchids of Suriname. Paramaribo, Suriname: VACO N.V. Uitgeversmaatschappij, 256p. [text and location maps pp. 230-232 for Sobralia fimbriata, fragrans, macrophylla, sessilis; color photos of Sobralia fimbriata, sessilis p. 213]

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Pat Werner (DATE?) Werner’s Guide to Nicaraguan Orchids: Selva Negra. [http://www.selvanegra.com/Download/Orchids.doc] - Sobralia fenzliana, fragrans, macrantha

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Leon A. Wiard (1987) An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico. [p.139].

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Louis Otho Williams (1951) The Orchidaceae of Mexico. Tegucigalpa: Ceiba, vol. 2, 344p.

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Louis Otho Williams and Paul Hamilton Allen (8 March 1946) Orchidaceae, Flora of Panama Part III. Fascicle 2., pp. 107-246, in: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 33: 30. [Sobralia allenii , amabilis, bletiae, bouchei, callosa, fenzliana, fragrans, labiata, leucoxantha, lindleyana, panamensis , decora var. aerata , rolfeana, suaveolens , valida, warszewiczii, macrophylla]

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Louis Otho Williams and Paul Hamilton Allen (reprinted 1980) Orchids of Panama. 590 pages. 1980 reprint of 1946 also includes "Checklist of the Orchids of Panama," by Robert L. Dressler.

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M. Wolff (1990) "Schonheiten am Wegesrand - z.B Sobralia dichotoma," in: Orchidee 41(5): 157.

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G. Zotz and H. Ziegler (Oct. 1997) "The occurrence of crassulacean acid metabolism among vascular epiphytes from Central Panama," in: New Phytologist Vol. 137, Issue 2, pp. 223-229. [Elleanthus; Sobralia]

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USEFUL LINKS for FURTHER LITERATURE SEARCHES:

American Journal of Botany: http://www.amjbot.org/contents-by-date.0.shtml

American Society of Plant Taxonomists: Systematic Botany

Harvard University Herbarium (as of 10 April 2003), Index of Botanical Specimens.
URL: http://brimsa.huh.harvard.edu/cms-wb/specimen_index.html

International Plant Names Index [IPNI]

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature

Litbul Version 8, the Orchid Bibliography on CD, compiled by Rudolf Jenny.

Orchid Research Newsletter (ORN), published in January and July by the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

OXFORD Journals online

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