Cranichis tenuis Rchbf. 1865
Photo by © Ricardo Valentin de la Rosa and his Ricardo's Puerto Rico Blog
Drawing provided by © Kew's Plants of the World Online
Drawing by © M Montalvo and Ackerman 1995
MID 
Common Name The Delicate Cranichis
Flower Size .32" [8mm]
Found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in soils of moist scrub forests at elevations of 650 to 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of several, orbicular-oblong to oblong, more or less acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the mid summer and fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 13.2 to 9.2" [33 to 23 cm] long, thin, provided with a few distant, scarious sheathing bracts, rachis .8 to 4.8" [2 to 12 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with green, leafy, obovate, less than half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, white flowers.
CAUTION!!!!! According to Ackerman in 2014 this species is only occuring in the Carribean and so the drawing by Dunsterville & Garay's is from Venezuela. It appears that the species found in Venezuela also occurs in Colombia and may be C diphylla.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Cat. Pl. Cub.: 268 Griseb. 1866
Catologo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1938;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not does not occur in Venezuela ...so see caution = C diphylla;
Moscosoa 4: 190 Dod 1986 Drawing fide;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: 33 Ackerman 1995 drawing fide see caution line above;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing Not occuring in Venezuela so.....see caution line above = C diphylla;
Orchidaceae Antilanae Nir 2000;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo Not occuring in Venezuela so..... see caution line above = C diphylla;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide to the first photo correct to Ackerman;
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