Cranichis rotundifolia Szlach. & Kolan. 2013 Badia Group 5

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach. & Kolan. and Polish Bot. J. 58: 620 Szlach. & Kolan 2013

Part shadeCold Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Round Leaved Cranichis

Flower Size

Found in Nariño department of Colombia at elevations around 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single basal, suborbicular, subacute, subcordate at the base into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, slender, provided with a few remote sheathing bracts, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, cylindrical, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts aqnd carryng transluscent white, glabrous flowers..

"Similar to Cranichis diphylla but distinguished by the suborbicular leaf blade versus ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the spathulate, apically rounded petals versus linear-oblanceolate, acute to obtuse and the lip broadly ovate and obtuse with two anastomosing veins versus the lip ovate to broadly elliptic, the disc obcordately papillose and thickened with 3 branching often glandular veins. Vegetatively the new species seems to resemble Cranichis tenuis from which it differs by the form of its perianth segments as well as by the shorter floral bracts and ovaries. In the floral parts C rotundifolia resembles Cranichis fendleri especially in having spathulate petals and a broadly ovate lip. The two species are easily distinguished by a series of characters. In C fendleri there are 3 to 4 oblong-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, acute leaves, an oblong-lanceolate dorsal sepal and a lip with 3 anastomosing veins. Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Polish Bot. J. 58: 620 Szlach. & Kolan 2013 drawing fide

PeerJ 7-e7385 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide

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

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 36 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide

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