Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Perriniae Withner 1990 Photo by Reginaldo Baião

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Common Name Perrin's Laelia [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

A Brazilian, medium sized, warm to cool growing, epiphytic orchid, with a solitary leaf, found at altitudes of 700 to 900 meters with ovoid-ellipsoid to clavate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ligulate, leathery, rounded at the apex leaf that blooms in the late summer through the winter with 2 to 6, long-lasting flowers on a to 10" [to 25 cm] long, raceme subtended by a large compressed sheath.

Synonyms Amalia perrinii (Lindl.) Heynh. 1846; Bletia perrinii [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1861; Brasilaelia perrinii (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; Cattleya intermedia var angustifolia Hkr. 1839; Cattleya integerrima var angustifolia Hkr. 1846; *Cattleya perrinii Lindley 1838; Hadrolaelia perrinii ( Lindl. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Sophronitis perrinii (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia perrinii; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis perrinii; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 10 2003 drawing; Boletim CAOB Vol 59 2005

Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 var coerula Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

A purple color variety of the prebious species

Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 var semialba Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding