Laelia x cristinae [Miranda & Lacerda] in ed
Photos by Jay Pfahl
TYPE drawing of Hoffmannseggella zaslawskiana
TYPE drawing of Hoffmannseggella zaslawskiana by Chiron & V P Castro
Common Name Christina's Laelia [Wife of Franscisco Miranda and discover of Species - current]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations of 900 to 1250 meters on ledges growing directly on the rocks or in sandy and rocky plains as a medium sized, warm to cool growing rupicolus lithophyte with cylindrical, 3 to 5 noded, abruptly thickened at the base pseudobulbs enveloped basally by evanescent sheaths and carrying carrying a single, apical, stiff, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute leaf and blooms in the summer and fall in Brazil on a terminal, erect, 24" [60 cm] long, few [6] flowered, racemose inflorescence.
A naturally ocurring primary hybrid of Laelia briegeri and Laelia rupestris. I found this plant in the photos above growing on the road in between Presidente Kubichek and Datas at an elevation of 1250 meters growing in sand, rocks and some dirt on cap rock with other plants in open range with exposed rock outcroppings. This is a newly named plant as of February 2003. Sorry but this was the only plant we found and it was a day away from being done with flowering. Marcos Campacci and myself thought at the time of encountering the plant that it may be an unnamed Laelia hybrid but as stated before it had just been published.
Synonyms Cattleya × cristinae (F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda) Van den Berg 2010; Cattleya × zaslawskiana (Chiron & V.P.Castro) Van den Berg 2010; Hoffmannseggela x cristinae Miranda & Lacerda 2003; Hoffmannseggella × zaslawskiana Chiron & V.P.Castro 2005
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda 2003 as Hoffmannseggella x Christanae drawing/photo ok;
Richardiana 5: 63 Chiron & V P Castro 2005 as Hoffmanseggella x zaslawskiana drawing fide Neodiversity 5: 14 Van den Berg 2010 as Cattleya cristinae;
Neodiversity 5: 16 Van den Berg 2010 as Cattleya xzaslawskiana
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