!Laeliopsis domingensis Lindl. ex Paxton 1852-3
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TYPE Drawing of L violacea by S Moore & Ayres
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Common Name Dominican Laeliopsis - In DR Flor de Mayo or Canuela
Flower Size 2 to 2.5" [5 to 6.25 cm]
From the island of Hispaniola and Mona Island, Puerto Rico where it is found in dry coastal scrub forest at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid to fusiform-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3, linear to ligulate, unequally round or bilobed apically leaves with serrulate margins that blooms most often in the spring and summer on a 2' [60 cm] long, slender inflorescence with a panicle of faintly fragrant, or not flowers clustered at the apex and opening in succession over a long period.
It is best mounted on wood and given partial shade and moderate humidity but likes xerophytic conditions in the winter.
Synonyms Bletia domingensis [Lindl.]Rchb.f 1862; Broughtonia domingensis [Lindley]Rolfe 1889; Broughtonia lilacina Henfr. 1902; Broughtonia violacea S.Moore & Ayres 1851, not validly publ.; *Cattleya domingensis Lindley 1833; Broughtonia lilacina Henf. 1851; Laelia domingensis (Lindl.) Millsp. 1900
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 118 Lindley 1833 as Cattleya domingensis
Gard. Mag. Bot. 3: 201 S Morre & Ayres 1851 as Broughtonia violacea not validly publ.;
Gard. Mag. Bot. 3: 201 S Morre & Ayres 1851 as Broughtonia violacea drawing fide;
Gard. Mag. Bot. 3: 201 Henrard 1851 as Broughtonia lilacina;
* Paxton's Fl. Gard. 3: 155 Lindley 1853;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia domingensis;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 432 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia domingensis;
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 5: 491 Rolfe 1889 as Broughtonia domingensis
Publ. Field Columb. Mus., Bot. Ser. 2: 32 Millsp. 1900 as Laelia domingensis
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Broughtonia domingensis;
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Broughtonia dominguensis Drawing ok;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Broughtonia dominguensis;
AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957; Rhodora 62: 236 Ariza-Julia & J.Jiménez Alm. 1960 as L domingensis var alba
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 6 1966 photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 as Broughtonia dominguensis;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 as Broughtonia domingensis;
Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 4 1996 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Lieferung 42/3 2001 photo fide;
Moscosoa 13:111 2002 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide;
Orquideas de la Republica Dominicana Y Haiti Fernandez 2007 as Broughtonia domingensis photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #3 2012 as Broughtonia domingensis photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;
AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #1 2015 as Broughtonia domingensis photo fide;
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