Cranichis lehmannii Rchb.f. 1878

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name Lehmann's Cranichis [German Council and Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in upper montane cloud forests at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 5, basal, erect-patent, ovate, subacuminate, shortly and obliquely cordate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with remotely 3 to 4 sheaths ans linear-setaceous, acuminate, as long as the ovaries floral bracts.

Synonyms Cranichis cylindrostachys Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis, Schlechter. 1920 as C cylindrostachys; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 422 Dodson 1989 drawing not; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing hmm; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not = C ciliata

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