Laelia bradei Pabst 1973 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Esalqueanae Withner 1990
Photo by © Rick Barry
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Common Name Brade's Laelia [Polish curator of Rio de Janiero botanical garden 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in cracks and crevasses of rock outcropings at elevations of 1100 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, "rupicolous" lithophyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptic, fleshy leaves with incurved margins that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, 2 1/4" [6 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Cattleya bradei (Pabst) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella bradei (Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis bradei (Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bradea 1: 332 Pabst 1973;
Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 1 1985 photo fide;
Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 under L flava;
Lindleyana Vol 15: 116 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis bradei;
Richardiana 2: 21 V P Castro & Chiron 2002 as Hoffmanseggella bradei;
Neodiversity 3: 5 Van den Berg 2008 as Cattleya bradei;
A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Cattleya bradei photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2014 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol #9 2019 photo fide;
Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 photo fide
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