Cranichis crumenifera Garay 1962
Photo by Carlos Uribe Velez
Type Collection sheet by © Dressler and Harvard Orchid Collection Website
TYPE Drawing by © E W Smith and Garay and Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The Bag Carrying Cranichis
Flower Size
Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2600 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, 10" [25 cm] long overall, rachis to 2" [to 5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped by 4, tubular, acute to acuminate sheaths.
Distinguished by the caulione leaves, the glabrous ovary, the single nerved dorsal sepal, the 3 nerved lateral sepals, the single nerved petals with sparsely ciliate margins and the prominent sack-like base of the lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
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