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(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/19/2012)
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Genus
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LAELIA Lindl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gen. & Sp. Orch. Pl. 115. 1831
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Reference
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Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. 3:533. 1883; L. Wms. in Darwiniana 5:74. 1941.
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Synonym
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Schomburgkia Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 10. 1838.
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Description
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Epiphytic herbs often with showy flowers and ancipitous, terete, solid or hollow pseudobulbs. Sepals subequal, free, spreading, flat or undulate. Petals similar to the sepals, sometimes broader. Lip free from or slightly connate with the column, 3-lobed (or nearly simple), the lateral lobes enfolding the column or more or less explanate; disc smooth or lamellate; column- long or short, winged or wingless. Anther operculate, incumbent, each cell divided into two by a septum and with each- cell sometimes again divided by a more or less perfect septum; pollinia 8, 4 in each cell of the anther, ovate or compressed laterally, ceraceous.
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Note
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The genus is to be found rather widely over tropical and subtropical America, where it is often exceedingly abundant. Some species are prized by orchid growers and are useful in hybridization. There are about 50 species in the genus.
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Key
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a. Pseudobulbs less than 8 cm. long; sepals and petals plane ...................... I. L. RUBESCENS aa. Pseudobulbs more than 18 cm. long; sepals and petals undulated or twisted .. .. ........................................................2. L. LUEDDEMANII
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