Common Name : Lund's Laelia [Danish Plant Collector in Brazil 1800's]

Flower Size : 1 1/2" [3 to 4 cm]

A Brazilian miniature epiphytic or lithophytic species with 2 leaves found at an altitude of 1000 meters in thickets among the coastal mountains with short, robust, oblong-fusiform, slightly compressed, pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, small, erect to spreading, fleshy, semicylindric, linear, very acute, slightly arcuate, deeply channeled above leaves that flowers in the mid-winter and spring on a short, ascending raceme arising from a new growth with minute bracts and 2 flowers held among the leaves. A strange sidenote, this is the only Brazilian Laelia with more than one leaf.