Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Perriniae Withner 1990 Photo by Reginaldo Baião

TYPE Drawing of Cattleya perrrinii TYPE Drawing by © Lindley

Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 var coerula Photos by © Eric Hunt

Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 var semialba Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Perrin's Laelia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in Brazil at altitudes of 700 to 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing, epiphytic orchid with ovoid-ellipsoid to clavate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ligulate, leathery, rounded at the apex leaf that blooms in the late summer through the winter with 2 to 6, long-lasting, spicy floral scented flowers on a to 10" [to 25 cm] long, raceme subtended by a large compressed sheath.

Synonyms Amalia perrinii (Lindl.) Heynh. 1846; Bletia perrinii [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1861; Brasilaelia perrinii (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Cattleya intermedia var angustifolia Hkr. 1839; Cattleya integerrima var angustifolia Hkr. 1846; *Cattleya perrinii Lindley 1838; Chironiella perrinii (Lindl.) Braem 2006; Hadrolaelia perrinii ( Lindl. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Laelia perrinii f. alba (O'Brien) M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007; Laelia perrinii alba O'Brien 1888; Sophronitis perrinii (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24: t. 2 Lindley 1838 as Cattleya perrinii;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24: t. 2 Lindley 1838 as Cattleya perrinii drawing fide;

Alph. Aufz. Gew.: 29 Heynh 1846 as Amalia perrinii;

* Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13: 5 Bateman 1847

Paxton's Mag. Bot. 13: 5 Bateman 1847 drawing fide

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 421 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia perrinii;

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2: 49 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia perrinii;

Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 4: 446 O'Brien 1888 as L perrinii alba

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo good;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as L perrinii var nivea;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;

AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970 as L perrinii var coerula;

Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide;

Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 10 1983 as L perrinii var coerula photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 5 1985 as L perrinii var coerula photo fide;

Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide;

The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;

Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis perrinii;

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 drawing fide;

Orquidologia Sul-Amer.: 103 F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat.2004 as Hadrolaelia perrinii f alba

Boletim CAOB Vol 59 2005;

Richardiana 2: 17 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Hadrolaelia perrinii;

Richardiana 6: 110 Braem 2006 as Chironella perrinii;

Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 4(Pré-anexo): 100 Campacci 2006 as Brasilaelia perrinii;

Orchid. Atlas: 182 M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007 as L perrinii vf alba;

Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Hadrolaelia perrinii drawing/photo fide;

Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as Cattleya perrinii;

AOS Bulletin Vol 85: 56 supplement K A Roberts 2016 as Cattleya perrinii f alba

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #8 2017 as L perrinii var coerula photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #9 2017 as Cattleya perrinii photo fide;

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