Cranichis engelii Rchb.f. 1876
Drawing and Herbarium specimen by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name Engel's Cranichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in nortwestern Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in wet upper montane forests at elevations around 1400 to 2900 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, basal, in a rosette, ovate to elliptic, distinctly cordate,abruptly acuminate, gradually narrowing into the cuneate, then petiolate, canaliculate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, scapose, erect, rather slender, glabrous below, sparsely pubescent above, 14" [35 cm] long, loosely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, half the length of the ovary
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 421 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005
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