Laelia rubescens Lindley 1840 SUBGENUS Laelia SECTION Podolaelia Schlechter
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © Peter Szabo
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Common Name The Rosy Tinted Laelia - In Mexico "Guarita"
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in wooded regions in seasonally dry, deciduous forests at elevations of sealevel to 1700 meters on exposed tree trunks where they withstand full sun for hours, yet get plenty of air movement to cool down as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with compressed, ovoid, wrinkled, dark green pseudobulbs subtended by papery sheaths carrying a single [rarely 2] leathery, apical, oblong-ovate, spreading or suberect, leathery, v-shaped in cross-section, obtuse, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the autumn and winter on a new growth with a to 3' [90 cm] long, terete inflorescence enveloped by papery sheaths, carrying fragrant wintergreen scented flowers all clustered at the apex that may or may not close at night.
Mount on tree fern slabs and give bright light, ample water while growing and a dry winter rest after flowering
Synonyms Amalia acuminata (Lindl.) Heynh. 1846; Amalia peduncularis (Lindl.) Heynh. 1846; Amalia rubescens (Lindl.) Heynh. 1846; Bletia acuminata Rchb.f 1861; Bletia peduncularis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1861; Bletia rubescens Rchb.f 1861; Bletia violacea (Rchb. f.) Rchb. f. 1861; Cattleya acuminata Beer 1853; Cattleya pendicularis Beer 1854; Cattleya rubescens Beer 1854; Laelia acuminata Lindley 1841; Laelia inconspicua H.G.Jones 1974; Laelia peduncularis Lindley 1842; Laelia pubescens Lemoine 1852; Laelia rubescens f. peduncularis (Lindl.) Halb. 1993; Laelia violacea Rchb.f 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: t. 41, also misc. 20. 1840; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Laelia violacea; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia rubescens; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia peduncularis; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia violacea; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Bletia acuminata; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as L peduncularis; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing hmm; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 48. Panama Schlechter 1922; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 131. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 5 1958 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 24 #4 1960 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 #5 1960 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 10 1960 as L acuminata photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961 as L acuminata; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 11 1968 photo fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 42 No 1 1978 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 1 1980 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 797 Dodson 1982 drwawing fide; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 9 1987 photo fide; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Cattleya and Their Relatives Vol 2 Withner 1990 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1441 Atwood 1992 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992; Orquidea (Méx.) 13(1 - 2): 294. Halbinger 1993 as L rubescens f peduncularis; Orchid Digest Vol 60 No 1 1996 photo fide; Laelia in Mexico ORQUIDEA (MEX.) 15. OCTOBER 1997 drawing/photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 3 2001 photo fide; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal. 2001; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #10 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #9 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #10 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 82 #2 2013 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2013 photo fide; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #12 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 1 2017 photo fide; ; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Encabarcenia rubescensphoto fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
Laelia rubescens var alba Lindley 1840
Photo by Eric Hunt
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 12 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #10 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide;
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