Laelia virens Lindley 1844 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Crispae Withner 1990 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Deep shadeCool Fall

Common Name Green Flowered Laelia

Found in southeastern Brazil in shady primitive forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a semi-cleistogamous or partially opening flower, medium sized, cool growing epiphyte that is not seen very often with laterally compressed, fusiform, dark green, smooth pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, dark green, leathery, deeply keeled, ovate, acute leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, to 5 flowered inflorescence arising through a sheath.

Synonyms Brasilaelia virens (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Cattleya virens (Lindl.) Van den Berg 2008; Laelia johniana Schlechter 1912; Laelia goebeliana Keuppers & Kranzlin 1916; Sophronitis virens (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 as L johniana; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 2 Laelias Withner 1990 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis

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