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Laelia × gouldiana; photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAArne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons

Laelia × gouldiana Rchb.f.

Orchidaceae · Mexico Northeast · listed by its genus as an orchid

A hybrid: L. anceps × L. autumnalis, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Laelia × gouldiana, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsLaelia × gouldiana, photograph Dmitriy Konstantinov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLaelia × gouldiana, photograph 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLaelia × gouldiana, photograph Teresa Grau Ros from Barcelona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLaelia × gouldiana, photograph Ronald Valdés Balsells, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLaelia × gouldiana, photograph Ronald Valdés Balsells, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

Summary

Laelia gouldiana is a plant of the orchid genus Laelia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Laelia gouldiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Laelia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Laelia in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 16 of the 17 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMexico Northeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker20.436, -98.684 · in the densest population, 17 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 17 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 16 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 17 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons; Dmitriy Konstantinov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Teresa Grau Ros from Barcelona, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ronald Valdés Balsells, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Laelia 19 in the reference

Laelia albida Laelia albida Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, DelanoLaelia anceps Laelia anceps Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Leonardo O. Alvarado CárdenasLaelia aurea Laelia aurea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Motohiro SunouchiLaelia autumnalis Laelia autumnalis Lael's Autumn Orchid Photo: CC0, author not statedLaelia colombiana Laelia colombiana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Brian Gratwicke from DC, USALaelia × crawshayana Laelia × crawshayana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez RomeroLaelia eyermaniana Laelia eyermaniana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Oscar Alejandro Morales JuárezLaelia furfuracea Laelia furfuracea Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Ricardo Betancourt SánchezLaelia gloriosa Laelia gloriosa Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo Luiz Laelia halbingeriana Orchidaceae Laelia lueddemannii Laelia lueddemannii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ldgcLaelia lyonsii Laelia lyonsii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Pakawut kenta all 20 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Rchb.f.
Native to
Mexico Northeast
Wild records
17 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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