Cranichis hassleri Cogn. 1909

TYPE Collection Sheet by Kew Herbarium

Common Name or Meaning Hassler's Cranichis [Swiss Collector physician, ethnographer, naturalist and botanist in Paraguay 1864 - 1937]

Flower Size

Found in Paraguay along riversides at elevations below 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, completely glabrous terrestrial with a rosette of a few, small, ovate, acute to obtuse, rounded below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in fall on an erect, terminal, strict, slightly flexuous, whitish, peduncle 4.8 to 8" [12 to 20 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4, foliaceous sheathing bracts, rachis .12 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, loosely 10 to 16 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, a bit shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, subsessile, flowers with membraneous segments.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 7: 69 Cogniaux 1909

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