Lankesterella pilosa (Cogn.) Hoehne 1944

Drawing by © Pabst

Deep shade Cool Winter

Common Name The Hairy Lankesterella

Flower Size

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazilat elevations above 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with numerous, basal, minute, densely rosulate, slightly membraneous, flat to slightly concave, intense green, oblong, acute, glabrous to barely pubescent on both sides, margin densely ciliate, attenuate below into the base leaves that blooms in the early winter on a short, straight, pale green, subfiliform, terete, 1.2" [3 cm] long, loosely 2 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acute, sparsely covered with elongated, flat, white hairs, much longer than the flowers floral bracts and carrying minute, sessile, white flowers.

Closest to Lankesterella caespitosa but L. pilosa is 1.2" [3 cm] tall and has larger flowers with a linear-tongue shaped, pointed labellum.

Synonyms Cladobium pilosum (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920; *Stenorrhynchos pilosum Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Bras. 3(6): 536 Cogniaux 1906 as Stenorrhynchos pilosum

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 433 Schlechter 1920 as Cladobium pilosum

Arq. Bot. Estado São Paulo, n.s., f.m., 1: 132 Hoehne 1944

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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