Biology:Laelia albida

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Short description: Species of orchid

Laelia albida
Laelia albida - Curtis' 68 (N.S. 15) pl. 3957 (1842).jpg
Laelia albida, Illustration.
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Genus: Laelia
Species:
L. albida
Binomial name
Laelia albida
Bateman ex Lindl.
Synonyms
  • Laelia discolor A.Rich. & Galeotti
  • Laelia candida Lodd. ex W. Baxter
  • Amalia albida (Bateman ex Lindl.) Heynh.
  • Cattleya albida (Bateman ex Lindl.) Beer
  • Bletia albida (Bateman ex Lindl.) Rchb.f.

Laelia albida is the most northerly-growing laelia in Mexico. This epiphytic orchid bears ten or more small (5 cm) pale pink flowers on a half-meter terminal inflorescence in late winter to early spring. It is cold-tolerant close to freezing in the winter and needs to be kept dry until new vegetative growth is seen in late spring. It seems to do much better mounted on cork or hardwood than potted.

The diploid chromosome number of L. albida has been determined as 2n = 42 and as 2n = ~63.[1]

References

  1. page 252. Leonardo P. Felix and Marcelo Guerra: "Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)" Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 163(2010)234-278, The Linnean Society of London

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q6470915 entry