Laelia crispa [Lindl.] Rchb. f. 1853 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Crispae Pfitzer
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Common Name The Crisped Laelia
Flower Size 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm]
Found in Brazil on tall trees or in massive clumps on rocks at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic or sometimes lithophytic species with club-shaped, compressed, grooved pseudobulbs with a single, apical, suberect, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or notched apically leaf that blooms mostly in the summer on a 12" [to 30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence, arising from a large flattened sheath, carrying 4 to 9, fragrant, showy, long-lasting flowers.
Synonyms Bletia crispa [Lindley]Rchb.f 1861; Bletia crispa var. purpurea Rchb.f. 1862; Bletia crispa var. reflexa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862; Brasilaelia crispa (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; *Cattleya crispa Lindley 1828; Cattleya crispa var. buchananiana B.S.Williams & T.Moore 1883; Cattleya crispa var. purpurea Guidon 1858; Cattleya reflexa Parm. ex Walp. 1861; Chironiella crispa (Lindl.) Braem 2006; Hadrolaelia crispa ( Lindl. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Hadrolaelia crispa f. alba (B.S.Williams) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004; Laelia crispa var. cauwelaertiae L.Linden 1891; Laelia crispa var reflexa Rchb.f 1854; Sophronitis crispa (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bot. Reg. 14: t. 1172 Lindley 1828 as Cattleya crispa
Bot. Reg. 14: t. 1172 Lindley 1828 as Cattleya crispa drawing fide
Bot. Reg. 14: t. 1172 Lindley 1828 as Cattleya crispa drawing fide
* Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 9: 102 Rchb.f 1853
Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 9: 102 Rchb.f 1853 as Laelia crispa var reflexa;
Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as L crispa var reflexa;
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 423 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia crispa;
Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2:52 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia crispa;
Xenia Orchid. 2: 52 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia crispa var purpurea
Xenia Orchid. 2: 52 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia crispa var reflexa
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 423 Rchb.f 1862 as Cattleya reflexa;
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 4: 112 B S Williams 1871 as Cattleya crispa var superba
L'orchidophile; Traité Théor. & Prat.: 356 F Buyss 1878 as Laelia crispa var grandiflora;
Orchid Album 2: t. 81 B S Williams & T Moore 1883 as Cattleya crispa var buchananiana;
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 7: 177 B S Williams 1894 as Cattleya crispa
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 7: 177 B S Williams 1894 as Cattleya crispa drawing fide;
Orch.-Grow. Man., ed. 7: 177 B S Williams 1894 as Cattleya crispa var delicatissima
Orchid Album 2: t. 81 B S Williams & T Moore 1883 as Cattleya crispa var buchananiana
Orchid Album 2: t. 81 B S Williams & T Moore 1883 as Cattleya crispa var buchananiana drawing fide;
Ill. Hort. 38: 19 L Linden 1891 as Cattleya crispa var caulwelaertiae drawing fide
Ill. Hort. 38: 19 L Linden 1891 as Cattleya crispa var caulwelaertiae;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 photo fide; J. Soc. Centr. Hort. France 4: 249 Guidon 1858 as Cattleya cripa var purpurea
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 4 1963 photo fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 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 49 No 8 1980 photo L crispa var alba;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Laelias Withner 1990 photos fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 4 1993;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;
Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis crispa;
Richardiana 2: 16 Chiron & Castro 2002 as Hadrolaelia crispa; Orquidologia Sul-Amer.: 102 F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004 as Hadrolaelia crispa f alba;
Richardiana 6: 108 Braem 2006 as Chironiella crispa;
Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 4(Pré-anexo): 99 Campacci 2006 as Brasilaelia crispa
Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Hadrolaelia crispa drawing/photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 as Cattleya crispa photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 as Cattleya crispa drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9:40 2016 as Cattleya crispa var cauwelaertiae;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9:40 K A Roberts 2016 as Cattleya crispa var reflexa
Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 as Cattleya crispa photo fide;
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