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Laelia x gouldiana Rchb.f 1888 SUBGENUS Laelia SECTION Podolaelia Schlechter

Another Color Form

Photos by © Weyman Bussey.

Drawing

Drawing by © Rolando Jimenez .

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Common Name Gould's Laelia [New York Financier 1800's]

Flower Size 3 1/5" [8 cm]

Found in Hidalgo state of Mexico in the mountains at elevations around 1550 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with fusiform, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 4 to 6 scarious sheaths and carrying 2 to 3, erect, lanceolate, bright green leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an apical, erect, to 30" [75 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying up to 10 well-rounded, magenta/red, 3" [7.5 cm] wide blooms that are awesome, as the lip is violet/red with a red-veined white center and a yellow keel, are mildly fragrant.

Found to be a natural hybrid between L. anceps and L autumnalis .

This species is most likely extinct in the wild perhaps because it was considered one of the best of the Mexican Laelias

This species and L autumnalis var gouldiana are certainly different although at first glance they appear the same. L goudiana has brighter colored flowers and a different lip shape but what sets the 2 species apart is the 3 calli of the lip. On L gouldiana the three calli are actually a flat 3 striped raised plain and in L autumnalis the three calli are three raised ridge lines.

The second photo [another color form] shows a L gouldiana that is centered correctly and has a flat 3 lined plain and the flower at an angle on the right is L autumnalus with a deeply 3 ridged calli on the lip so the difference in these calli can be readily seen.

Synonyms × Schombolaelia gouldiana (Rchb.f.) Peraza & Carnevali 2016

References

* Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 3: 41 Rchb.f 1888

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Orchid Digest Vol 24 #3 1960 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963;

AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967;

AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 1 1968 photo fide back cover ad;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 12 1982 photo fide;

Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide;