Lankesterella longicollis (Cogn.) Hoehne 1944
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Side View showing elongated spur
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Another Flower - L longicolle "Fuzzy Damsel" CHM/AOS
Photo by © Ginny Worthington
Drawing by © Hoehne 1945
Common Name The Long Column Lankestrella
Flower Size 3/8" [9 mm]
Found in Sao Paulo state of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with several, shiney light green, lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent beneath, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, pubescent, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sparsely pubescent, 3 nerved, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with externally pubesecnt tepals.
Easily confused with Lankesterella spannageliana as the lips of both species are very similar but the ovary and spur of L spannageliana is much longer and the ovary has a large apical hump.
Synonyms Cladobium longicolle (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920; *Stenorrhynchos longicolle Cogn. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fl. Bras. 3(6): 535 Cogniaux 1906 as Stenorrhynchos longicolle
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 433 Schlechter 1920 as Cladobium longicolle
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 175 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 85 fig 6 Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 drawing hmm;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchid Digest Vol 63 #3 1999 photo not = L gnomus;
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