Laelia pfisteri Pabst & Senghas 1975 SUBGENUS Parviflorae SECTION Rupestres Withner 1990 Photo by © Denis Duveen
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Another Flower Photo by Mauro Rosim.
Common Name Pfister's Laelia [German Orchid Nurseryman 1900's]
Flower Size .88" [2.2 cm]
Found in Bahia state of Brazil at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing rupicolus orchid that grows in an area with cactus that has a dry spell between December and July and is rare there in nature as well as cultivation with pear-shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, somewhat conduplicate, leathery leaf and blooms in the spring on a 12" [30 cm] long, successively single, up to 8 flowered inflorescence with several triangular sheaths.
Synonyms Cattleya pfisteri (Pabst & Senghas) Van den Berg 2008; Hoffmannseggella pfisteri (Pabst & Senghas) V.P.Castro & Chiron 2002; Sophronitis pfisteri (Pabst & Senghas) C. Berg & M.W. Chase 2000
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs Band I 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 5 1983 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 48 No 1 1984 photo fide; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000 as Sophronitis pfisteri
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