Cranichis diphylla Sw. 1788 Photo by © Costa Rica Linda and Their Costa Rica Linda Website

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Common Name The 2 Leaved Cranichis

Flower Size 1/4" [7mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Surinam, Ecuador and Peru in soil in wet lower montane forests and cloud forests in peaty soils on damp shady banks at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2 basal, subequal, cordate, medium green with velvety sheen above, paler below leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, [to 10" [to 25 cm] long, pinkish, finely pubescent, somewhat laxly, many flowered, terminal, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms Cranichis alfredii Schltr. 1923; Cranichis guatemalensis Schltr. 1906; Cranichis nigrescens Schltr. 1912; Cranichis ovatilabia Schltr. 1920; Cranichis pittieri Schltr.1912; Cranichis stictophylla Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing good; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1211 Hamer 1985 drwaing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as C rutkisii drawing fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005

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