When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth

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we have recently found and photographed.

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Peten, Guatemala, Central America

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Bibliography on water-related orchid Sobralia macrantha, Lirio de San Juan

Terrestrial orchids and water-related orchids of Guatemala

Ever since I found a water-associated orchid at Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo in October 2018, I have become interested in any and all orchids which like to grow along the shore, or on floating masses of reeds away from the shore. Plus I am also interested in terrestrial orchids. Sobralia macrantha is a typically adaptive orchid: it can live on tree trunks, on rocks which have appropriate plant material already on them, and on the ground.

Our long range goal is to make a list of all terrestrial orchids and all water-associated orchids (rivers, lakes, swamps, bogs, etc) that may be expected in the diverse eco-systems of Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo, Peten, Guatemala. In other words, can Sobralia macrantha be found here? If you would like to join our search, either in-person on a field trip, or via your computer (from video and photos that we can send you), your donations will really help our field work to find terrestrial and water-related orchids.

Although there are exposed bedrock and other exposed limestone areas in the park, I do not expect to find many lithophytic orchids, but we will be on the lookout for them.

PDF, Articles, Books on Sobralia macrantha

AMES, Oakes and Donovan CORRELL
1985
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize. Courier Corporation. 779 pages.
This is the 1985 reprint of three earlier reports by these orchid specialists.

Sold Online:
www.amazon.com/Orchids-Guatemala-Belize-Oakes-Ames/dp/0486248348/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543253120&sr=8-1&keywords=Orchids+of+Guatemala+and+Belize

BATEMAN, James
2010
Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala. John Denson. 175 pages.

BENZING, D. H., OTT, D. W. and W. E. FRIEDMAN
1982
Roots of Sobralia macrantha (Orchidaceae): structure and function of the velamen-exodermis complex. American journal of botany. Vol. 69. No. 4. Pages 608-614.

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www.jstor.org/stable/2443070?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

GONZÁLEZ, Bertha, GONZÁLEZ, Octavio, PÉREZ, María, GONZÁLEZ, Patricia and Víctor CHÁVEZ
2013
Cultivo in vitro de Sobralia macrantha y Stanhopea tigrina. UNAM.

Available Online:
www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/resultados/LU002_Anexo_2_MEMORIA.pdf

MENCHACA, Rebeca, MORENO, David, SÁNCHEZ, Lorena, SAGETH, José and Esteban VENTURA
2015
Manual para el aprovechamiento sustentable de orquídeas en comunidades. Universidad Veracruzana, COFUPRO y SINAREFI. 37 pages.

Available Online:
www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/225107/MANUAL_PARA_EL_APROVECHAMIENTO
_SUSTENTABLE_DE_ORQUIDEAS.pdf

NEUBIG, Kurt, CARLSWARD, Barbara, MARK, W. and Norris WILLIAMS
2015
Nectary structure and nectar In Sobralia and Ellenthus (Sobralieae: Orchidaceae). Lankesteriana. Vol. 15, No. 2.

Available Online:
www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1409-38712015000200001

ROGERS, Bruce
2007
Growing Sobralias. AOS. Orchids. Pages 912-919.

Available Online:
www.aos.org/AOS/media/Content-Images/PDFs/sobralias.pdf

SOTO, Miguel, HÁGSATER, Eric, JIMÉNEZ, Rolando and Rodolfo SOLANO
2007
Orquídeas de México. Herbario AMO-Instituto Chinoín, A.C. y Centro interdisciplinario de investigación para el desarrollo integral regional-unidad- Oaxaca. 67 pages.

Available Online:
www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/resultados/Inf%20P107.pdf

TEJEDA, Olga and María Téllez
2017
Riqueza de la familia Orchidaceae en un bosque mesófilo de montañaen Chocomán, Veracruz, México. Acta Botánica Mexicana. No. 121. Pages 139-149.

Available Online:
www.redalyc.org/pdf/574/57453196005.pdf

Suggested webpages with photos and information on Sobralia macrantha

https://noticias.ufm.edu/sobralia-macrantha-en-la-ufm/
Information about the bloom of S. macrantha in Guatemala.

www.orchidspecies.com/sobmacrantha.htm
Photo and information.

www.aos.org/orchids/orchids-a-to-z/letter-s/sobralia.aspx
Information.

By far the majority of information on orchids is how to raise them in your greenhouse.

We are looking for information on what kind of eco-systems they grow in, and in which parts of Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Peten, or Belize these orchids may be near or adjacent to rivers, lakes, or swamps.

If you know an article or discussion where the author has noted (and even better if the author has photographed where the orchid is growing) this would help our research. For example, is growing on the shore a habitat for this orchid species in the Mayan areas?

Our goal is to make a list of what water-related orchids and what terrestrial orchids (even if not on the shore) we can find at Parque Nacional Yaxha Nakum Naranjo, Peten, Guatemala; adjacent to Parque Nacional Tikal).

Contact: nhellmuth symbol FLAAR.org

First posted December, 2018
Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica (Guatemala).
Text by Nicholas Hellmuth, FLAAR (USA).