Laelia bahiensis Schltr. 1921
Photo by © Denis Duveen
Photo by © John Denson and his The Cattleya Orchid Source Website
Photos by Sidney Marçal
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Common Name or Meaning The Bahia Laelia [a State in northeastern Brazil]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in northeastern Brazil in the state of Bahia in the Chapada da Diamantina at elevations around 1100 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing lithophyte from the side of rocks in full sun with cylindrical to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, linear-elliptic, acute, basally conduplicate leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, 12 to 28" [30 to 70 cm] long, racemose, few to several [10] flowered inflorescence with the successive, well-spaced flowers opening over several weeks.
Synonyms Cattleya luetzelburgii Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella bahiensis (Schltr.) H.G. Jones 1975; Sophronitis bahiensis (Schltr.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 272 Schlechter 1921
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 11 1958 ;
Hawaii Orchid J. 3(4): 16 H G Jones 1974 as Hoffmanseggella bahiensis
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977;
Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo ok;
Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2: 116 2000 as Sophronitis bahiense;
Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005;
Neodiversity 3: 9 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya lutzelburgii
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