Lankesterella alainii Nir 2000
Photo by © Julio Larramendi
TYPE drawing by © Mark Nir
MID 
Common Name Alain's Lankesterella [Dr Henri Alain Liogier French Botanist 1916 -2009]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cuba and the Dominican Republic in montane forests at elevations around 1400 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a basal rosette of 1 to 3, soft, obovate, acute, ciliolate margined leaves that blooms in the mid winter on a terminal, slender, longer than the leaves, densely villous, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, villose, much longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying exernally villous flowers
Similar to L orthanthae but is distinguished by a differently proportioned lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Moscosoa 4: 195 Dod 1986 as L orthantha ;
*Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho and Larramendi 2005 photo fide;
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