Cranichis picta Rchb.f. 1876Herbarium specimen by © Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideologia
Herbarium specimen by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Colored Cranichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia and Ecuador in wet upper montane cloud forests at elevations around 2600 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with usually one or deciduous at flowering, basal, narrowly obovate, gradually narrowing into the cuneate, then elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, glabrous, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence that is distinctly several sheathed and has ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, concave floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 423 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005
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