Lankesterella ceracifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Mansf. 1940

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Amerigo Docha Neto.

Full shadeWarmCool Winter Spring

Common Name The Waxy Leafed Lankesterella

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found from Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande Do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana Brazil to NE Argentina at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with small, lanceolate, light green, keeled, shiny leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, pilose, to 4 flowered inflorescence with pilose, tubular flowers

Synonyms Cladobium ceracifolium (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920; Cladobium majus Hoehne & Schltr 1926; Cladobium oliganthum Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Lankesterella major (Hoehne & Schltr.) Mansf. 1940; 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 ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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