Plant and Flowers

TYPE Drawing

Photos/TYPE Drawing by M A Campacci

Common Name The Medina Pseudolaelia [refers to the locality of the new species]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil on rocky outcrops at elevations around 910 meters as a miniature [without inflorescence] sized, warm growing, subcaespitose lithophyte with a rigid, short rhizome giving rise to fusiform, initially smooth becoming somewhat rugose pseudobulbs enveloped by deciduous sheaths and carrying 2 to 6, alternate, subcoriaceous, linear, somewhat conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on a terminal, terete, thin, reddish brown, with imbricating bracts, flexible, 7.8" [18 cm] long, racemose, successively 2 to 3, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, inconspicuous floral bracts and carrying small, slightly inclined flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 15 Campacci & Silva 2018 photo/drawing fide

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