Kreodanthus corniculatus (Rchb.f.) Garay 1977 Collection by © Wright and The EOL Website

EARLY

Common Name The Small Horned Kreodanthus

Flower Size

Found in Cuba at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ascending, glabrous, distally purberulent stem enveloped by a few sheaths and carrying a few basal, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, short, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Erythrodes corniculata (Rchb.f.) Carabia 1943; Goodyera corniculata (Rchb.f.) Ackerman 2012; *Physurus corniculatus Rchb.f. 1865; Physurus wrightianus Griseb. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Goddyera corniculata;

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