Cranichis apiculata Lindl. 1842 Scan by JSTOR and the JSTOR Plant Science Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Apiculate Cranichis

Flower Size 1/4" [6 to 8 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in shady montane forests at elevations around 1200 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, pendulous, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with basal, 5 nerved, green, gradually narrowing below intot he pelongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, cylindric, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, 40 to 50 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ;

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