Cranichis antioquiensis Schltr 1920

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Common Name The Antioquia Cranichis [A department of Colombia where the orchid occurs]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2 basal, suberect, ovate, subacuminate, shortly cordate basally, glabrous, narrowly below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, thick, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Cranichis curtii Schltr. 1923; Cranichis irazuensis Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideenfloren Der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 83. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as C curtii; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 83. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as C irazuensis

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