Cranichis ciliata [Kunth] Kunth 1822

Flower CloseupPhoto by © Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Cranichis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Western Argentina in cloud forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a minaiture to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a few basal, matte clear green with dark green, elliptic, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, purple, narrow, cylindric racemose, many [40] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cranichis atrata Schltr. 1920; Cranichis mandonii Schltr. 1922; Cranichis pachnodes Løjtnant 1977; Cranichis pleioneura Schltr. 1920; Cranichis polyblephara Schltr. 1920; Cranichis schlimii Rchb.f. 1876; Cranichis sororia Schltr. 1921; *Ophrys ciliata Kunth 1816

References W3 Tropicos, Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C atrata; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C pleioneura; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C polyblephara; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as C sororia; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten V Bolivia Schlechter 1922 as C mandonii; Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correl 1952; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as C ciliata not = C antioquenisis; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as C schlimii; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1210 Hamer 1985 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0313 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as C mandonii drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 as C schlimii; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as C lehmannii photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo;

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