Cranichis candida (Barbosa) Cogn. 1895 Photo courtesy of Amerigo Docha Neto

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Plant ensitu Alto de la Serra do Moji Dos Cruzes Brazil with a Spider crab (Thomisus spectabilis) Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name or Meaning The White Cranichis

Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]

Found in Brazil in bright shady places at the forests edge in deep humus as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial found in colonies with a rosette of 3 to 4, close to the ground, shiny, oval, deep green leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, to 60 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Cranichis micrantha Griseb. 1879; Cranichis microphylla Porsch 1905; Cranichis parviflora L.O.Williams 1938; Cranichis similis Rchb.f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;

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