Cranichis carlos-parrae Szlach. & Kolan. 2013 Group Ocampoa

Drawing by © Szlach. & Kolan. and The Research Gate Website

Common Name or Meaning Dr Carlos Parra'a Cranichis [Colombian Curator of the Colombian National Herbarium [COL] current]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo departments of + Colombia in very wet, cold sub paramo and Paramo as well as dwarf forests at elevations around 2500 to 3350 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 6, basal, rosulate, narrow, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, almost sessile to petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, delicate, long-pedunculate, 6" [15 cm] long, glandular above, enveloped by 4 sheaths, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely glandular, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying inconspicuous, medium sized flowers.

Resembles Cranichis lehmannii but differs in the strongly falcate petals and the lip not ornamented with a callus.

Synonyms Ocampoa carlos-parrae (Szlach. & Kolan.) Szlach. & Kolan. 2015 publ. 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Pl. Syst. Evol. 299: 979 Szlach. & Kolan. 2013 drawing

Pl. Syst. Evol. 301: 723 Szlach. & Kolan. 2015 publ. 2014 as Ocampoa carlos-parrae

Pl Sys & Evolution Vol 301: Overview of Cranichis (Orchidaceae, Cranichidinae) and allied genera with notes on their Colombian representatives Kolan & Szlach 2015 as Ocampoa carlos-parrae

PeerJ 7-e7385: 45 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 2019 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 82 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa carlos-parrae drawing fide

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