Laelia bradei Pabst 1973 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Esalqueanae Withner 1990 Photo courtesy of Rick Barry

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Common Name Brade's Laelia [Polish curator of Rio de Janiero botanical garden 1900's]

Flower Size [3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil as a miniature "rupicolous" lithophyte at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters in cracks and crevasses with cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptic, fleshy, leaves with incurved margins that blooms on an erect, terminal, 2 1/4" [6 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence occuring in the winter in nature and the summer and fall in cultivation in the north..

Synonyms Hoffmannseggella bradei (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis bradei (Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis bradei

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