Cranichis glabricaulis Hoehne 1910 Diphylla Group 9

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Inflorescence

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TYPE Drawing

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Drawing

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Common Name The Smooth Stemmed Cranichis

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Matto Grosso and Distrito Federal states of Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 6, basal, coriaceous, shiny, reddish green above, paler beneath, obovate, undulate margin, acute, attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, provided with 8 to 9 longly amplexicaul, lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size below sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 3.6" [7 to 9 cm] long, more or less cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with patent, lanceolate, acuminate, single nerved, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers with the inner oart of the lip speckled with intense green.

"Differs from Cranichis candida in being completely glabrous and has different flowers. Differs from the closer related Cranichis muscosa in the glabrous petals without marginal cilia and by its less distinctly pseudopetiolate base and smaller leaves." Hoehne 1945

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Relat. Commiss. Linhas Telegr. Estratég. Matto Grosso Amazonas 5(1): t. 32 Hoehne 1910

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 130 Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 77 fig 1 Hoehne 1945 drawing good;

Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok

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