!Neolauchea pulchella Kraenzl. 1897
Photo by Lourens Grobler ©
Photos by Marius Wasbauer
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Common Name The Beautiful Neolauchea
Flower Size 1/4" [1.5 to 2 cm]
Found in southern Brazil at moderate elevations in cool damp mountains as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, creeping, branched rhizome with narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by fibrous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly linear, subterete leaf that blooms in the late fall on a terminal, 2" [5 cm] long, thread-like, erect to arching, single flowered inflorescence that is held amid the leaves and is best mounted on cork or tree fern and given moderate shade.
Synonyms Isabelia pulchella (Kraenzl.) Senghas & Teusch. 1968; Isabelia pulchella (Kraenzl.) C.Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2001; Isabelia pulchella f. alba Nunes ex C.Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2001; Isabelia pulchella var. alba Nunes 1991; Meiracyllium wetsteinii Porsch. 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 No 11 1964 photo fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968 sa Isabelia pulchella photo pk; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 6 1980 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as Isabelia pulchella photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Isabelia pulchella; Lindleyana Vol 16 No 2 2001 as Isabelia pulchella f alba; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as Isabelia pulchella photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #8 2010 as Isabella pulchella photo fide; Of Men & Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 3 2017 as Isabelia pulchella drawing fide;
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