Laelia briegeri Blumensch. ex Pabst 1973

SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Parviflorae Lindley Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard and his Orchideen Website

Plant in situ Minas Gerais Brazil Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Brieger's Laelia [German-Brazilian Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil at elevations around 1370 meters as a rupicolus Laelia growing directly on rocks in small cracks and crevasses as a miniature sized, cool growing lithophyte with small, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, stiff, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute leaf and blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that is much longer than the leaf..

Synonyms Cattleya briegeri (Blumensch. ex Pabst) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella briegeri (Blumensch. ex Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis briegeri (Blumensch. ex Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 3 1981 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 51 No 5 1982 photo; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 as L briegeri var albaphoto fide; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo ok; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis breigeri

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