Laelia eyermaniana Rchb. f. 1888

Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Flowering plant in situ in Mexico

Photo by Robert Weyman Bussey.

Drawing

Drawing by Rolando Jimenez

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Common Name Eyerman's Laelia [American Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's]

Flower Size 3.6" [9 cm]

Found in Sonora, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Jalisco, Michoacán, Guanajuato and Querétaro states of Mexico in dry oak forest at elevations of 1050 to 2350 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with conical-ovoid to subglobose pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by imbricating, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3 apical, lanceolate-elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, acute to subacute, basally clasping leaves that blooms only in summer and early fall on a apical, 12" to 3.5' [30 to 100 cm] long, erect-arcuate raceme arising on a mature pseudobulb with 3 to 12 showy, fragrant flowers.

Plants are smaller than Laelia autumnalis and it comes only from the Mexican west coast north of Oaxaca state.

Once thought to be a natural hybrid between Laelia speciosa and Laelia albida, now given species status.

Durango Mx., 2438m elev., near Puerta de los Membrellos, epiphytic on oaks, sometimes lithophytic beneath trees , growing in the same tree with Laelia albida and Laelia speciosa at altitudes between 1050 and 2500 meters.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 4: 91 Rchb.f 1888

Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo;

Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 51 1990 drawing fide;

Laelias In Mexico ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 15. OCTOBER 1997 photo fide;

Rudolf Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 ;

AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 drawing fide;

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