Laelia x laurae [Rosim] in ed.
Photos/TYPE Drawing by M S Rosim
Common Name Laura's Laelia [Laura Trevisan Zaffalon Brazilian grandmother of the author current]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on rocky mountains at elevations around 1450 meters as a natural hybrid between Laelia reginae and Laelia crispata as a mini-miniature [without inflorescence] sized, cool growing, saxicolus terrestrial with an inconspicuous rhizome giving rise to obclavate, green suffused with purple, articulated pseudobulbs enveloped by alternate, acuminate, deciduous sheaths and carrying a single, erect, fleshy, coriaceous, rigid, slightly canoe-shaped, with a dark longitudinal line in the center, slightly tranversel;y rugise , apiculate, conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, arising through a linear-truncate, oblique spathe, erect, green, laterally compressed, to 6" [15 cm] long, simultaneously 3 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying upward facing flowers.
Synonyms Cattleya x laurae (Rosim) J.M.H.Shaw 2018; *Hoffmannseggella x laurae Rosim 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 13 Portalet 2018 as Hoffmannseggella x laurelae photo/drawing fide fide; Orchid Rev. 126(1324, Suppl.): 79 J M Shaw 2018 as Cattleya x laurae;
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