Laelia × dolteana [Rosim] in ed.
TYPE Drawwing/Photo by © Mario Rosim
Common Name Dolte's Laelia [Dolte Irene Zaffalon Rosim Brazilian mother of the Author]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on rocky outcrops with nightly cloudcover, at elevations around 1100 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, saxicolous lithophyte that is a natural hybrid between L ghillanyi and L neocardimii with obclavate, 3 internodes, tapering towards the apex pseudobulbs enveloped by strongly adpressed, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, erect, elliptic, conduplicate, apiculate apically, fleshy-coriaceous, rigid leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, apical, arising through a well developed, linear, truncate spathe, to 8.4" [21 cm] long overall, peduncle 5.6" [14 cm] long, rachis 2.8" [7 cm] long, green, laterally compressed, simultaneously 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
Synonyms Cattleya × dolteana (Rosim) Van den Berg 2019; *Hoffmannseggella × dolteana Rosim 2019
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list ,
* Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 15: 606 (2019 as Hoffmannseggella x dolteana;
Neodiversity 12(1): 3 Van den Berg 2019
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