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Lankesterella

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Lankesterella

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Lankesterella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is found mostly in South America, with a few species extending north into Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

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Specimen records
62
With media
12
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
SEL, USNM, AMES, NHMUK, NY, JBRJ
Recorded in
Ecuador, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica, Brasil

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Lankesterella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is found mostly in South America, with a few species extending north into Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica.

==Species== Species currently recognized as of June 2014: Lankesterella alainii Nir - Cuba, Dominican Republic Lankesterella caespitosa (Lindl.) Hoehne - Venezuela, Brazil Lankesterella ceracifolia (Barb.Rodr.) Mansf. - Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina Lankesterella glandula Ackerman - Dominican Republic Lankesterella gnomus (Kraenzl.) Hoehne - Brazil Lankesterella longicollis (Cogn.) Hoehne - Brazil Lankesterella orthantha (Kraenzl.) Garay - Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Lankesterella parvula (Kraenzl.) Pabst - Rio de Janeiro Lankesterella pilosa (Cogn.) Hoehne - Rio de Janeiro Lankesterella salehi Pabst - Brazil Lankesterella spannageliana (Hoehne & Brade) Mansf. - Rio de Janeiro

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lankesterella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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