Cranichis wageneri Rchb.f. 1876Wageneri Group 10
Photo by © the Costa Rica Linda Website
Herbarium specimen by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name Wagener's Cranichis [German Plant collector in Venezuela 1800's]
Flower Size small
Found in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Districto Federal state of Venezuela, Magdalena, Boyaca and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Peru in humid montane forests at elevations around 2000 to 2800 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2 basal, broadly ovate-cordate, acute, with entire to crenulate margins, petiolate to subsessile basally leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, peduncle to 4.8 to 8.8" [12 to 22 cm ] long, glandular-pubescent, provided and enveloped below by 5 to 8, tubular, pellucid, amplexicaul, acute sheathing bracts, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, subcapitate, laxly many flowered, inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying successively 1 to 3 open at one time, short-lived, small, glabrous, non-resupinate flowers.
"The only species of the Wageneri group with an erect, not hooked apex to the lip." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms Cranichis costaricensis Schltr. 1923; Cranichis pilosa Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Cranichis subcordata Schltr.1906;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 2: 130 Schlechter 1906 as Cranichis subcordata
J. Bot. 47: 265 Fawcett & Rendle 1909 as Cranichis pilosa
Flora of Jamaica: 33 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as C pilosa
Flora of Jamaica: PLATE 5 Fig 1-3 Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as C pilosa drawing fide;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 12 Schlechter 1923 as Cranichis costaricensis
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 129 Hoehne 1945 Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1513 Mora and Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995 photo ok; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 as C pilosa drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum,Herrera and Zamora 2003; The Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto etal 2005; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide/photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 60 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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