Laelia × britoi (K.G.Lacerda & V.P.Castro) in ed
Photo by © Aleksandro Zaslawski and AWZ Nursery
Drawing by © Lacerda
Common Name Brito's Cattleya [Brazilian collector of the species current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a natural hybrid between Laelia crispata and Laelia mirandae as a medium sized, cool growing lithophyte with cylindrical, round in cross section, dark green strongly pigmented with purple brown pseuodbulbs carrying a single, apical, straight, conduplicate, linear-lanceoate leaf that blooms in the Brazilian summer on an erect, terminal, arising through a linear-lanceolate spathe, to 22" [55 cm] long, rapidly successive to 14 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Hoffmannseggella × britoi K.G.Lacerda & V.P.Castro 2005; Cattleya × britoi (K.G.Lacerda & V.P.Castro) Van den Berg 2010; Sophronitis × britoi (K.G.Lacerda & V.P.Castro) Campacci 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Richardiana 5: 20 K.G.Lacerda & V.P.Castro 2005 as Hoffmannseggella × britoi;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 150 Castro 2006 as Hoffmannseggella x britoi drawing fide;
Bol. CAOB 58: 51 Campacci 2005 as Sophronitis × britoi;
*Neodiversity 5: 14 Van den Berg 2010 as Cattleya × britoi
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