Cranichis macroblepharis Rchb.f. 1878 Photo by © Alex Hirtz

Drawing Drawing by © Rchb.f and The Herbario Virtual Austral America Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Large Lashed Cranichis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador on the eastern coast at elevations up to 800 metersas a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with 1 to 2, basal, ovate-elliptic, acute, more or less rounded below intothe short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle remotely 3 sheathed, to 8" [20 cm] long, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, dense, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, acuminate floral bracts.

Distinguished by the non-foliaceous peduncle, the green leaves, the cilate margin petals, the glabrous ovary, the cymbiform lip with an upcurved apex, and the disc with 3 parellel, unbranched veins.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;

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