Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 subgen Crispae sec 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; 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

Laelia perrinii [Lindl.] Bateman 1847 var coerula Photo courtesy of Edwin Whitmann

A purple color variety of the prebious species

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