Cranichis lankesteri Ames 1923

Plant Photo by © The Orchid Flora Bosque de la Paz Website

Inflorescence Photo by © the Costa Rica Linda Website

Drawing Drawing by © Atwood and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Lankester's Cranichis [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in deep shade of virgin, wet cloud forests at elevations around 1450 to 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to 1 to 2, glossy, dark olive green, ovate, subcordate into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, brownish red, pubescent above, to 9" [22 cm] long, successviely to 25 flowered, racemose inflorescence with 2 to 3, lanceolate bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1417 Atwood & Mora 1992 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchioideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum,Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;

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