Cranichis pennellii Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 Badia Group 5

Drawing by © N Oledrzynska, Kolan. & Szlach. 2020

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Common Name or Meaning Pennell's Cranichis [American botanist and collector of the type 1886–1952]

Flower Size

Found in Cauca department of Colombia in paramillo scrub at elevations of 2700 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, ovate, subobtuse, undulate margin, narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 11.2 to 11.8" [28.5 to 29.5 cm] long, sparsely glandular above, provided with 3 to 4 sheathing bracts, rachis 1.8 to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long, cylindrical, subdensely, many flowered inflorescence with glabrous, somewhat shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish yellow flowers.

"Most similar to C juajibioyi but separated by both the undulate leaf margin and undulate lip margin, the obscurely 3 veined lateral sepals versus 2 veined, the shortly unguiculate lip versus subsessile, the lip with three veins the laterral ones branching versus anastomozing veins. The new species is easily separaated from C rotundifolia by the three veined lip." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* PeerJ 7-e7385: 46 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 35 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide

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