Laelia milleri Blumen. 1960

SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Parviflorae Lindley

Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.

LATE and

Common Name Miller's Laelia [Brazilian Biologist 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil as a miniature, warm to cool growing "rupicolous" lithophyte on iron ore outcroppings in Minas Gerais or on the base of Vellozia shrubs at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters with clustered, flask shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ovate-oblong, acute, rigid, erect, keeled below leaf that is dark green tinged with purple that blooms on a erect, 12 to 18" [30 to 50 cm] long, several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with successive opening flowers, held well above the leaves and occuring in Brazil in the November and December and in cultivation in the late spring and summer.

Synonyms Hoffmannseggella milleri (Blumensch. ex Pabst) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis milleri (Blumensch. ex Pabst) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis milleri; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 5 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 1 2008 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 4 2008 photo as Sophronitis milleriAOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 8 2008 photo as Sophronitis milleri

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