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Definition of Sobralia
1. Noun. Any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sobralia
Literary usage of Sobralia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1848)
"sobralia MACRANTHA SPLENDENS. ... that " the genus sobralia is one of the most
remarkable among ... sobralia ..."
2. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects by Charles Darwin (1904)
"... folia—-Pogonia—Pterostylis and other Australian orchids with the labellum
sensitive to a touch—Vanilla—sobralia. Cephalanthera grandiflora. ..."
3. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... ensi- folia—Pogonia—Pterostylis and other Australian orchids with the labellum
sensitive to a touch—Vanilla—sobralia. Cephalanthera grandiflora. ..."
4. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... ensi- folia—Pogonia—Pterostylis and other Australian orchids with the labellum
sensitive to a touch—Vanilla—sobralia. ..."
5. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilized by Insects by Charles Darwin (1877)
"... ensi- folia—Pogonia—Pterostylis and other Australian orchids with the labellum
sensitive to a touch—Vanilla—sobralia. Cephalanthera grandiflora. ..."
6. The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects by Charles Darwin (1877)
"... other Australian orchids with the labellum sensitive to a touch—Vanilla—sobralia.
Cephalanthera grandiflora.—This Orchid is remarkable from not ..."
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