Laelia ghillanyi Pabst 1973
SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Liliputinae Withner 1990
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photos by © Patricia Harding
Plant in situ in Mianas Gerais Brazil
Plant in situ Parque Serra Do Cipo' - Minas Gerais Elevation 1400 meters
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Ghilliany's Laelia [Brazilian Orchid Collector and discoverer of this species]
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found as a rupicolus Laelia growing directly on rocks in small cracks and crevasses as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with small, globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, stiff, coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Distinguishing characteristics of this species are the shorter to just barely longer than the leaf inflorescence and the column that is markedly broader at the base and flowers that arise in the spring
Synonyms Cattleya ghillanyi (Pabst) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella ghillanyi (Pabst) H.G. Jones 1974; Sophronitis ghillanyi (Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest No 38 No 2 1974 drawing/photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band I Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 6 1983 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo ok; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 under L crispata; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis ghillanyi; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Cattleya ghillanyi photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 as Cattleya ghillanyi photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #6 2017 as Catteya ghillanyi photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 as Cattleya ghillianyphoto fide;
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