Laelia rubescens


Laelia rubescens is a species of orchid native to Mexico and Central America.

Distribution

Laelia rubescens is native to the Central American countries Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and much of Southern/Central Mexico. It also occurs in the wild in Florida and Cuba as an escapee from cultivation, having been intentionally introduced as an ornamental plant. Laelia rubescens grows in seasonally dry, deciduous forests as an epiphyte and occasionally as a lithophyte at elevations below 1700 meters.

Synonyms

  • Amalia rubescens Heynh.
  • Cattleya rubescens Beer
  • Bletia rubescens Rchb.f.
  • Laelia acuminata Lindl.
  • Laelia peduncularis Lindl.
  • Amalia acuminata Heynh.
  • Amalia peduncularis Heynh.
  • Laelia pubescens Lem.
  • Laelia violacea Rchb.f.
  • Cattleya acuminata Beer
  • Cattleya peduncularis Beer
  • Bletia peduncularis Rchb.f.
  • Bletia violacea Rchb.f.
  • Bletia acuminata Rchb.f.
  • Laelia inconspicua H.G. Jones
  • Laelia rubescens f. peduncularis Halb.