!Pseudolaelia vellozicola [Hoehne] C.Porto & Brade 1935
Inflorescence Photos by © Luis Menini Neto
Inflorescence Photo by Jay Pfahl
Plant Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista
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northern hemisphere - LATE 
Common Name or Meaning The Vellozia-Growing Pseudolaelia
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing rupicolous lithophyte found on low Vellozia bushes on hillsides with seeping water and have fusiform, psedobulbs carrying 3 to seven, clasping, deciduous, lanceolate leaves and blooms on a 3 to 4' [120 to 160 cm long, 2 to 15 flowered inflorescence with the well spaced, sequentially opening flowers held towards the apex and arise from May through September in the southern hemisphere.
Synonyms Pseudolaelia aguadocensis Campacci 2016; *Schomburgkia vellozicola Hoehne 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Schomburgkia vellozicola drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 9 513 - 576 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 photo fide to the first photo 2nd and third ok; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing/photo fide; Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 12 Portalet 2016 as P aguadocensis photo/drawing fide
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