Laelia kettieana Pabst 1976 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Liliputinae Withner 1990
Photos by © Stefan Paeffgen
Photo by © Vena Read
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Common Name Kettie's Laelia [Wife of Danish Orchid Collector Waras 20th cen.]
Flower Size 1.23 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in mountains in rock fissures at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters with hot humid summers and cold, dry winters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with clustered, almost globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, thick, leathery , rigid, often purple suffused, succulent, scoop shaped, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate, acute leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, simultaneously 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cattleya kettieana (Pabst) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella kettieana (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis kettieana (Pabst) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 2(22): 1 Pabst 1976
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2: 117 2000 as Sophronitis kettieana;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
Richardiana 2: 23 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Hoffmannseggella kettiana;
Neodiversity 3: 8 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya kettiana;
A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Cattleya kettiana photo
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