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Laelia jongheana Rchb. f. 1872 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Hadrolaelia Schlechter

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Photo by Dale Borders.

L jongheana var alba

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Common Name The Jonghe Laelia [Belgian Orchid Nursery 1800's]

Flower Size 4 to 6" [7 to 16 cm]

Found in central Minas Gerais state of Brazil in small patch forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphytic species with ovoid to ellipsoid, dark green, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by a white, apressed sheath and carrying a single, apical, very leathery, oblong-ellptic, obtuse or emarginate leaf that blooms in the late winter till spring on a 5.6" [14 cm] long racemose, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence.

Tree fern mounts are the best way to go with this species as well as cool temperatures, bright to direct light and plenty of water while growing.

Synonyms Bletia jongheana Rchb.f 1872; Cattleya jongheana (Rchb.f.) Van den Berg 2008; Hadrolaelia jongheana ( Rchb.f. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Sophronitis jongheana (Rchb. f.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Flora 55: 158 Rchb.f 1872;

* Flora 55: 158 Rchb.f 1872 as Bletia jongheana;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 11 1958 photo fide;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

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;

AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 7 1978;

Orchid Digest vol 42 No 5 1978 photo fide;