Lankesterella ceracifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Mansf. 1940
Photos by Amerigo Docha Neto.
Photo by © Ricardo Luis Penz and his Orchid Website
Drawing by © Hoehne
Common Name The Waxy Leafed Lankesterella
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande Do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana states of Brazil to northeastern Argentina in wet montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a rosette of small, elliptic-oblong to lanceolate, light green, keeled, shiny, pubescent ciliate margins, sparsely pubescent, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, pilose, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with oval, narrow, acute, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pilose, tubular flowers.
"This species is variable in appearance and size depending on its environment. To identify it consider the shape and size of the labellum and spur." Hoehne 1945
Synonyms Cladobium ceracifolium (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920; Cladobium majus Hoehne & Schltr 1926; Cladobium oliganthum Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Lankesterella major (Hoehne & Schltr.) Mansf. 1940; Lankesterella mentiens Hoehne 1944; Lankesterella oligantha (Hoehne & Schltr.) Mansf 1940; Spiranthes ceracifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stenorrhynchos ceracifolium Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stenorrhynchos ceracifolium var. cornutum Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stenorrhynchos cornutum (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1937
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2(Index): xv Barb Rodr. 1881 as Stenorrhynchos ceracifolium
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2(Index): xv Barb Rodr. 1881 as Stenorrhynchos ceracifolium var. cornutum
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 285 Barb Rodr. 1882 as Spiranthes ceracifolia
Flora Brasilenses Vol 3 pt 4: 167 Cogniaux 1893 as Stenorrhynchos ceracifolius
Flora Brasilenses Vol 3 pt 4: Tab 36 fig 1 Cogniaux 1893 as Stenorrhynchos ceracifolius drawing fide
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 432 Schlechter 1920 as Cladobium ceracifolium
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 190 Hoehne & Schltr 1926 as Cladobium majus
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 191 Hoehne & Schltr 1 1926 as Cladobium oliganthum
Rodriguésia 8: 40 Barb Rodr. 1937 as Stenorrhynchos cornutum
* Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 217 Mansf. 1940
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 217 Mansf. 1940 as Lankesterella major
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 15: 217 Mansf. 1940 as Lankesterella oligantha
Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 1: 131 Hoehne 1944 as Lankesterella mentiens
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 173 Hoehne 1945 as L mentiens
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 85 fig 3 Hoehne 1945< as L mentiens drawing good;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 86 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 as L mentiens drawing good;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 174 Hoehne 1945 as L majus
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 85 fig 4 Hoehne 1945 as L majus drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 176 Hoehne 1945 as L oligantha drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: Tab 86 fig 3 Hoehne 1945 as L oligantha
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 177 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 86 fig 4 Hoehne 1945drawing ok;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as L mentiens drawing good;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as L oligantha drawing ok;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as L oligantha photo not?????;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0241 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not = L caespitosa; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo not; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo ok; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo good;
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