Laelia cinnabarina Bateman ex Lindl 1839 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Parviflorae Lindley
Photo by © Lourens Grobler.
Photo by Vena Read.
Drawing by V P Castro .
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Common Name The Cinnabar Laelia [refers to the color of the flower]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro states of Brazil on rocks among grasses at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte with cylindrical to oboclaviform, swollen at the base pseudobulbs enveloped by white, striated sheaths and carrying 1 or rarely 2, linear-oblong, erect or spreading, tinged purple leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring in cultivation on an erect, arising througha spathe slender, to 2'[to 60 cm] long, racemose, several [5 to 15] flowered inflorescence and carrying long-lasting, color variable flowers .
Synonyms Amalia cinnabarina (Bateman ex Lindl.) Heynh. 1846 ; Amalias cinnabarina [Batem. ex Lindl.] Hoffmansegg 1842; Bletia cinnabarina [Batem. ex Lindl.] Rchb.f 1861; Bletia cinnabarina var sellowii Rchb.f 1863; Bletia cinnamomea (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862; Cattleya cinnabarina [Batem. ex Lindl.] Beer 1854; Cattleya cinnabarina (Bateman ex Lindl.) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella cinnabarina (Bateman) H.G. Jones 1968; Laelia cinnabarina var. sellowii (Rchb.f.) Cogn. 1901; Laelia cinnamomea Rchb.f. 1860; Sophronitis cinnabarina (Bateman ex Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Sert. Orchid.: t. 28 Bateman ex Lindley 1839
Alph. Aufz. Gew.: 29 Heynh. 1846 as Amalia cinnabarina;
Hamburger Garten- Blumenzeitung 16: 180 Rchb.f 1860 as L cinnamomea;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 430 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cinnabarina;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 430 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cinnamomea;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:47 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cinnamomea;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:61 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cinnabarina;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:61 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia cinnabarina var sellowii;
Fl. Bras. 3(5): 276 Cogniaux 1901
Fl. Bras. 3(5): 276 Cogniaux 1901 as L cinnabarina var sellowii;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 9 1958 drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 11 1958;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Acta Bot. Acad. Sci. Hung. 14: 69 H G Jones 1968 as Hoffmannseggella cinnabarina;
Orchid Digest No 38 No 2 1974 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 2 1978 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 11 1980 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 3 1981 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 9 1981 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 7 1985 as L cinnabarina var cowani photo fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo ok; The
Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;
Orchid Digest Vol 61 #3 1997 photo fide;
Lindleyana Vol 15:116 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis cinnabarina;
Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 151 Castro 2006 as Hoffmannseggella cinnabarina drawing/photo good;
Neodiversity 3: 6 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya cinnabarina;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #12 2011 as Cattleya cinnabarina photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 supplement 2016 as Cattleya cinnabarina var sellowii;
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