Laelia flavasulina (F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda) in ed Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista <

Common Name The Yellowest Laelia

Flower Size 2.24" [5.6 cm]

Found in northern Minas Gerais state of Brazil on quartzite rock at elevations of 900 to 1440 meters as a small sized, cool growing lithophyte with 4 to 6 internoded, cylindrical, slightly compressed, abruptly thickened basally pseudobulbs enveloped by dry sheaths and carrying linear-lanceolate, slightly leathery, transversly rugose leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 26" [65 cm] long, shortly successive to 12 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cattleya flavasulina (F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella flavasulina F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda 2003; Sophronitis flavasulina (F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 59: 566 F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda 2004

AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 as Hoffmannsegella flavisulina photo fide;

Neodiversity 3: 7 ( Van den Berg & Chase 2008 as Cattleya favasulina

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