Cranichis reticulata Rchb.f. 1866
Photos by © Franco Pupulin 2005
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Common Name The Reticulate Cranichis
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Costa Rica in deep shade of virgin, wet cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single, dark green reticulate with white, lanceolate, acuminate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and fall on an erect, terminal, peducle 7" [17.5 cm] long, provided with 1 to 2, subfoliaceousa sheathing bracts, rachis succcessively single, laxly few flowered inflorescence with ovate, apiculate, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Beitr. Orchid.-K. C. Amer.: 62 Rchb.f 1866
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum,Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
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