Laelia pfisteri Pabst & Senghas 1975 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Rupestres Withner 1990

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Another Flower Photo courtesy of Mauro Rosim.

Common Name Pfister's Laelia [German Orchid Nurseryman 1900's]

Flower Size 7/8" [2.2 cm]

Found in Bahia Brazil at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature, rupicolus orchid that grows in an area with cactus which has a dry spell between December and July and is rare there in nature as well as cultivation and has a pear-shaped pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, somewhat conduplicate, leathery leaf and blooms on a successively single [up to 8] flowered, 12" [30 cm] long inflorescence with several triangular sheaths occuring in the spring.

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 5 1983 photo ok; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis pfisteri

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