Laelia crispa [Lindl.] Rchb. f. 1853 SUBGENUS Crispae SECTION Crispae Pfitzer
Another Color Form Photos by © Lourens Grobler
L crispa var alba Photo by © Ernest Walters
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Common Name The Crisped Laelia
Flower Size 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm]
Found in Brazil on tall trees or in massive clumps on rocks at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic or sometimes lithophytic species with club-shaped, compressed, grooved pseudobulbs with a single, apical, suberect, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or notched apically leaf that blooms mostly in the summer on a 12" [to 30 cm] long, racemose inflorescence, arising from a large flattened sheath, carrying 4 to 9, fragrant, showy, long-lasting flowers.
Synonyms Bletia crispa [Lindley]Rchb.f 1861; Bletia crispa var. purpurea Rchb.f. 1862; Bletia crispa var. reflexa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1862; Brasilaelia crispa (Lindl.) Campacci 2006; *Cattleya crispa Lindley 1828; Cattleya crispa var. buchananiana B.S.Williams & T.Moore 1883; Cattleya crispa var. purpurea Guidon 1858; Cattleya reflexa Parm. ex Walp. 1861; Chironiella crispa (Lindl.) Braem 2006; Hadrolaelia crispa ( Lindl. ) Chiron & V.P.Castro 2002; Hadrolaelia crispa f. alba (B.S.Williams) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004; Laelia crispa var. cauwelaertiae L.Linden 1891; Laelia crispa var reflexa Rchb.f 1854; Sophronitis crispa (Lindl.) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as L crispa var reflexa; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia crispa; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 4 1963 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 5 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 8 1980 photo L crispa var alba; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Laelias Withner 1990 photos fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 4 1993; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis crispa; Orchidees Du Bresil As Orchideas da Serra Do Castello Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 as Hadrolaelia crispa drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 as Cattleya crispa photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 as Cattleya crispa drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #2 2017 as Cattleya crispa photo fide;
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