Lankesterella spannageliana (Hoehne & Brade) Hoehne 1940
Photos by Dalton Holland Baptista
Drawing by Hoehne 1945
Common Name Spannagel's Lankesterella [Brazilian Monk and Orchid Enthusaiast 1900's]
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a basal rosette of lanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, arching, pubescent, 3" [7.5 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts
Similar to Lankesterella gnomus but differs in the much larger plant and the very long spur. Differs from Lankesterella longicollis in the larger flowers with a larger humped ovary and the much longer spur.
Synonyms *Cladobium spannagelianum Hoehne & Brade 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Arch. Inst. Biol. Defesa Agric. 3: 291 Hoehne & Brade 1930 as Cladobium spannagelianum
*Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 16: 217 Mansf. 1940
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 176 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 86 fig 2 Hoehne 1945drawing good;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good;
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