Cranichis pleioneura Schltr. 1920 Pleioneura Group 1

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Common Name or Meaning The Veined Cranichis Cranichis

Flower Size

Found in Caldas and Cauca departments of Colombia on the edges of dense forests and in paramo at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, basal, oblong-ovate, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and summer on an erect, delicate, terete, peduncle 10 to 19.4" [25 to 48 cm] long, provided with 3 to 5, glandular towards the apex sheathing bracts, rachis 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, glabrous flowers.

" This species shares with Cranichis mandonii and Cranichis werffii Garay 1978 the same number of veins on the sepals and petals, 3 and 1 respectively. Unlike C mandonii, C pleioneura has glabrous sepals and ovary versus sparsely glandular. and unlike C werfii its petals are ciliate along both margins versus sparsely ciliolate along the anterior margins and glabrous along the posterior one." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 ."

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 60 Schlechter 1920

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Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 19 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020

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