Cranichis galatea Dod 1986
TYPE Collection sheet by © D Dod and University of Puerto Rico Herbarium Website
Common Name The Helmut Cranichis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Haiti on hills at elevations around 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a few basal, ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, glabrous, to 12" [30 cm] long, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with a few leaf-like sheaths and lanceolate, acuminate, externally sparsely hirsute floral bracts. "Superficially similar to C fertilis but is easily distinguished because the C fertilis is missing the two green nipples at the bottom of the labellum and on the column." Dod 1986
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Moscosoa 4: 181 Dod 1986 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antilanae Nir 2000; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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