Sophronitis marcaliana (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg & M.W.Chase 2004 Photo by © Marco Campacci and Guy Chiron

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Common Name Marcal's Sophronitis [Brazilian Collector of species current]

Flower Size 2.26" [5.6cm]

Found in southeastern Bahia Brazil in the Atlantic rainforests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a single, coriaceous, lanceolate, dorsal side red leaf that bloos in the summer on a terminal, erect, short, 4 to 6, simultaneously flowered inflorescence

Within my framework this species would fit best within Laelia but till now it has not been described as such.

Synonyms Cattleya marcaliana (Campacci & Chiron) Van den Berg 2008; Dungsia marcaliana Campacci & Chiron 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 135 Castro 2006 as Dungsia marcaliana drawing good/photo fide

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