Laelia alaorii Brieger and Bicalho 1976 by Bruce Cameron This plant is described as having an affinity with Hadrolaelia by having five definite  keels running down the lip. It is of miniature stature being up to 10cm in height and  creeps across the substrate. The flowers are produced from the developing leaf and  this acts as the sheath. (ie. flowering as the new growth develops) The flowers are a  pale pink with darker rosy overtones inside the labellum. They do not open fully, with  the sepals and petal forming a bell like enclosure around the lip.  The plant benched was purchased as a seedling in 1997, and flowered for the first  time in 2001. It is a good grower despite the lack of individual attention it should be  getting. It was planted in sphagnum moss in a 70mm pot, and is now due for repotting  having reached the edge. As I said, no special treatment just water and 50% light,  growing amongst my bulbo’s.  Ref :- The Cattleyas and their relatives. Volume II. The Laelias. Carl L.Withner  Laelia alaorii  Liparis condylobulbon Masdevallia infracta Maxillara elatior Maxillaria ochroleuca Miltonia flavescens Miltonia moreliana Neolauchea pulchella  Paphiopedilum henryanum Paphiopedilum superbiens var  superbiens  Peristeria elata  Pleurothallis tuerkheimii Pomatocalpa spicata Prosthechea rhynchophora More Articles