Cranichis tenuis Rchb.f. 1865 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Delicate Cranichis

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in soils of moist scrub forests at elevations of 650 to 800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of orbicular-oblong to oblong, more or less acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect, thin, 16" [40 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers.

CAUTION According to Ackerman in 1995 this species is only occuring in the Carribean and so the drawings by Padre Ortiz in Colombia represented here and Dunsterville & Garay's as well as Fernandez drawings are from Venezuela and represent another species but he does not say which.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide See Caution line above; Catologo Descriptivo de las Orquideas Cubanas Acuna 1987; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing hmm see caution line above; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide see caution line above; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide see caution line above;

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