Cranichis garayana Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989
Drawing by © Dodson & R.Vásquez
Drawing by © Dodson & R.Vásquez
Common Name or Meaning Garay's Cranichis [American Botanist born in Hungary and personal friend died 8/2016]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 1880 to 2240 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short nodose, leafy stem carrying ovate, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, glabrous, peduncle to 14" [35 cm] long, provided with a 4 distant sheaths, rachis to 5" [12.5 cm] long, spicate, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Differs from others in the genus by the presence of an obviuous, fleshy callus and the serrate margins of the lip." Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989
Cranichis garayana is a Bolivian endemic easily distinguished from other species by its 3-lobed lip above an elliptical base with subquadrate, deeply laciniate, lateral lobes and ovate, rounded middle lobe." Kolanowski etal 2021
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum plate 210 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide
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