Laelia itambana Pabst 1973 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Esalqueanae Withner 1990
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Common Name The Pico de Itambana [A Mountain in Minas Gerais Brazil]
Flower Size 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on sandstone outcrops amongst mosses and lichens as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte at elevations of 1500 to 2200 meters with narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying thick, leathery, rigid, succulent, often suffused with red beneath, ovate to ovate-elliptic, somewhat folded, fleshy, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect, arising through a sheath, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence and carrying 2 erect, simultaneously opening flowers
Synonyms Cattleya itambana (Pabst) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella itambana (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis itambana (Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 333 Pabst1973
Orchid Digest Vol 38 no 4 1974 drawing/photo fide;
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;
Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 1 1985 photo fide;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo good;
Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 under L flava;
Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2:117 2000 as Sophronitis itambana;
Richardiana 2: 23 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Hoffmannseggella itambana
Neodiversity 3: 8 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya itambana;
A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Cattleya itambana photo fide
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