Cranichis schlechteri Szlach. & Kolan. 2013 Wagneri Group 10

TYPE Drawing by © Szlach. & Kolan. and The Research Gate Website

Common Name or Meaning Schlechter's Cranichis [German Orchid Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Huila department of Colombia at elevations of 1200 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a single, basal, ovate, acute, subcordate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 32.8" [37 cm] long, delicate, glabrous in the lower half, otherwise glandular, provided with 5 sheathing bracts, rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, conical, subdensely many flowered inflorecence with lanceolate, acuminate, , half as long as the ovaryy floral racts and carrying small, inconspicuous flowers.

"Similar to Cranichis macroblepharis but is easily separable from the later by having auriculate base of the lip and the margins of the petals long-ciliate." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020

Synonyms

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Polish Bot. J. 58: 619 Szlach. & Kolan 2013 drawing fide

PeerJ 7-e7385: 85 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 drawing fide

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

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