Cranichis maldonadoana Kolan., Baranow, S.Nowak & A.Fuentes 2021 Ciliata Group 3

TYPE Drawing by © P. Baranow and PhytoKeys 186: 27 Kolan., Baranow, S.Nowak & A.Fuentes 2021

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Common Name or Meaning Maldonado's Cranichis [Carla Maldonado, the director of Herbario Nacional de Bolivia current]

Flower Size

Found in Tarija department of Bolivia at elevations around 2100 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, basal, ovate, apex not preserved, narrowly canaliculate intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle 13.2 to 13.6" [33 to 34 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, sheathing bracts that are glabrous towards the apex, rachis 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish yellow glabrous flowers

"This species resembles C. pleioneura and C. barkleyi , from which it differs in its lanceolate-ovate petals (vs. linear-oblanceolate to linear-ligulate), which are rather sparsely ciliate on the lower part (vs. equally ciliate or pilose along whole length). Unlike in C. pleioneura those of C. maldonadoana are 1-veined. Cranichis atrata differs from C. maldonadoana by having ligulate-oblanceolate petals, which are ciliate along both margins (vs. lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, 1-veined, ciliate on the basal 2/3)." Kolan., Baranow, S.Nowak & A.Fuentes 2021

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* PhytoKeys 186: 27 Kolan., Baranow, S.Nowak & A.Fuentes 2021

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