Laelia marcaliana [Campacchi & Chiron] comb. novo. Pfahl 2012
Photos by © Sidney Marcal Orquideas
Common Name Marcal's Laelia [Brazilian Orchidist and original collector of species current]
Flower Size 2.26" [5.6 cm]
Found in southeastern Bahia Brazil in the humid Atlantic rainforests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a single, coriaceous, lanceolate, dorsal side red leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, short, 4 to 6, simultaneously flowered inflorescence
This is a new combination that has now been published and is legal by new regs with the International Nomenclature Committee. This species does not fit well in any of the previous combinations listed above starting with the basionym Dungsia marcaliana Campacci & Chiron, Richardiana 2: 77 (2002,
Similar to Laelia harpophylla but differs in Laelia marcaliana having slightly longer pseudobulbs, wider leaves, 4 to 6 flowers sepals that are wider than .24" [6 mm], a lip that is narrow all along and has an acute apex as well as comparatively long, lateral lobes of the lip that overlap the midlobe.
Synonyms Cattleya marcaliana (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg, Neodiversity 3: 9 (2008; *Dungsia marcaliana Campacci & Chiron, Richardiana 2: 77 (2002; Sophronitis marcaliana (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase, Kew Bull. 59: 566 (2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Richardiana 2: 74 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Dungsia marcaliana drawing/photo fide; Kew Bull. 59: 566 Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2004 as Sophroniotis marcaliana; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 135 Castro 2006 as Dungsia marcaliana drawing good/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 as Dungsia marceliana;
Neodiversity 3:9 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya as Cattleya marcaliana
* Internet Orchid Sp. Photo Encycl. Nomencl. Notes 1(2): 1 Pfahl 2012 as Laelia marcaliana;
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