Lankesterella glandula Ackerman 2004

Drawing by © Bobbi Angel/Dressler and The Epidendra Orchid Website

Common Name The Smooth Lankesterella [refers to the inflorescence and the adaxial surface of the sepals]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in virgin forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with an abbreviated stem carrying 10, held in a basal rosette, membraneaceous, ciliolate, lanceolate, elliptical to oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, sessile to broadly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a slender, glandular, longer than the leaves, .68" [1.7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an irregularlly crenulate-ciliate, ovate, caudate floral bract.

"Lankesterella glandula is easily distinguished from L. alainii by the former being glandular rather than villous. Furthermore, the labellum has an acute apex rather than a rounded one. Most, if not all other Lankesterella are conspicuously pubescent, usually as villous as L. alainii. According to Nir’s (2000) classification, L. glandula should be under Lankesterella section Lankesterella." Ackerman 2004

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Lankesteriana 4(1): 49-50, f. 2. Ackerman 2004 drawing fide

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