Cranichis parvula Renz 1948 Diphylla group 9
Drawing by © G Larsen and Dr Leslie Garay
TYPE Collection Sheet and TYPE Drawing by © Jany Renz
Common Name The Insignificant Cranichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Magdalena, Antioquia, Cundinamarca and Meta departments of Colombia, Merida and Sucre states of Venezuela and Ecuador in forests margins and on banks at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with several, basal, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acute, rounded below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 11.8 to 13.6" [29.5 to 34 cm] long, provided with remotely several sheathing bracts, rachis 1 to 2.4" [2.5 to 6 cm] long, cylindrical, loosely many flowered, inflorescence with remotely several, leaf-like sheaths and lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish white, glabrous flowers.
Distinguished by the foliaceous peduncle, the glabrous ovary, the three nerved dordal sepal, the lip with a membraneous margin, the disc of the 3 nerved, papillose-verrucose lip, the single nerved, linear-oblong, entire margin petals, the short, broadly cylindric, loosely few flowered inflorescence, the ovate lip and the disc ballooned out from the base to the middle.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo good
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 52 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 53 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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