Laelia xanthina Lindley 1859 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Crispae Pfitzer

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TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing © Lindley

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Common Name Yellow Laelia

Flower Size 2.5 to 3.5" [6.25 to 8.75 cm]

Found in Bahia and Espirito Santo states of Brazil as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a clavate, slightly ribbed pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, oblong-ligulate, obtuse or rounded, rigid, erect, blue green leaf, that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, subtended by a large pale green sheath, racemose, to 9 1/2" [24 cm] long inflorescence carrying 2 to 6, fragrant or not, waxy, not opening fully flowers.

Synonyms Bletia flabellata Rchb.f 1861; Bletia xanthina Rchb.f 1862; Brasilaelia xanthina (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Cattleya xanthina (Lindl.) Van den Berg 2008; Chironiella xanthina (Lindl.) Braem 2006; Laelia wetmorei Ruschi 1970; Sophronitis xanthina (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5144 Lindley 1859

Bot. Mag. 85: t. 5144 Lindley 1859 drawing fide

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 425 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia xanthina;

Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 422 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia flabellata;

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:50 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia flabellata;

Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:51 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia xanthina;

Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;

Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 photo fide;

Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo ok;

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;

Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide; The

Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; P> Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2: 119 2000 Sophronitis xanthina;

Richardiana 2: 20 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Hadrolaelia xanthina;

AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 3 2006 photo fide; Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 4(Pré-anexo): 100 Campacci 2006 as Brasilaelia xanthina; Richardiana 6: 109 Braem 2006 as Chironella xanthina;

Neodiversity 3: 12 Van den Berg 2008 as Catttleya xanthina;

AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #12 2010 drawing fide;

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

AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 as Cattleya xanthina photo fide;

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