Cranichis lankesteri Ames 1923 Photo by © the Costa Rica Linda Website

Common Name Lankester's Cranichis [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in deep shade of virgin wet cloud forests at elevations around 1450 to 1650 meters as a small szied, warm growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to glossy, dark olive green, ovate, subcordate into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal erect, brownish red, pubescent above, to 9" [22 cm] long, successviely to 25 flowered racemose inflorescence with 2 to 3 lanceolate bracts and carrying non-resupinte flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1417 Atwood & Mora 1992 drawing fide;

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