Lankesterella gnomus (Kraenzl.) Hoehne 1944
Photo by © Roberto Takase
Another Flower Photo by © Lutz Röllke
Side View of Flowers Photos by © Leonardo Desordi and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Plant and FLowers Another Flower Angle
Photos by Jay Pfahl.
TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos gnomus by © Kraenzlin
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Common Name The Gnome-Like Lankesterella
Flower Size .25" [.65 cm]
Found in Minas Gerias state of Brazil on low moss-covered tree trunks at elevations around 1300 meters in deep shade, with low air movement and high humidity as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a few short roots giving rise to 5 to 6, small, light grey green, ovate, acute, pilose leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a terminal, thin, pilose, racemose, 1.6" [4 cm] long, 1 to several flowered inflorescence.
"Closely related to Lankesterella longicollis or even more so Lankesterella spannageliana were it not for the short, rounded spur and the differently structured labellum". Hoehne 1945
The in situ plant photo above by Jay Pfahl is from Boia Ceia', Sao Paulo State, Brazil at an elevation of 2 meters in the first scrub, mangrove hammock off the beach on trunks and limbs of small trees with lichen. Very wet!!
Synonyms Cladobium gnomus (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920; Lankesterella hoehnei Leite 1948; *Stenorrhynchos gnomus Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 21 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos gnomus
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): Taf. 6 fig 1 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos gnomus drawing fide
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 433 Schlechter 1920 as Cladobium gnomus
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 174 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 85 fig 5 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Revista Fac. Filos. Ci. Letras Manoel Nobrega 1: 1 Leite 1948 as Lankesterella hoehnei
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Cogniauxiocharis glazioviana drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
AOS Bulletin No 63 No 9 1994 drawing good;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;
Orchid Digest Vol 63 #3 1999 as L longicolle photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 PHOTO fide;
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