Laelia colnagoi [Chiron & V P Castro] ined.

Photo by © Roberta Fox

TYPE Drawing of Hoffmannseggella colnagoi

TYPE Drawing of Hoffmannseggella colnagoi by © V P Castro

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Colnago's Laelia [Brazilian collector of the species current]

Flower Size 4.1" [10.25 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on inselbergs of rock in soil pockets at elevations around 1290 meters as a small sized, cool growing, caespitose rupicolous lithophyte with claviform, slihtly arching pseudpbulbs enveloped basally by amplexicaul, acute sheaths and carryin 1 to rarely 2, apical, elliptic to lanceoalte, rounded and slightly apiculate apically, coriaceous, bottle green leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on an erect, arising through a membraneous, ensiform, acute spathe, peduncle as long as the rachis, 10.4 to 12" [27 to 30 cm] long, 3 to 9 flwoered inflorescence with short, triangular floral bracts.

Synonyms Cattleya colnagoi (Chiron & V.P.Castro) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella colnagoi Chiron & V.P.Castro 2005; Sophronitis colnagoi (Chiron & V.P.Castro) Campacci 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Richardiana 5: 8 Chiron & V P Castro 2005 as Hoffmannseggella colnagoi drawing/photo;

Bol. CAOB 58: 51 Campacci 2005 as Sophronitis colnagoi;

Neodiversity 3: 6 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya colnagoi

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