Cranichis wageneri Rchb.f. 1876 Photo by © the Costa Rica Linda Website

Herbarium SpecimenHerbarium specimen by © The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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Common Name Wagener's Cranichis [German Plant collector in Venezuela 1800's]

Flower Size small

Found in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru at elevations around 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 1 to 2 basal , broadly ovat-cordate, acute, petiolate to subsessile basally with entire to crenulate margins that blooms in the fall on an erect, to *" [20 cm] long, glandular-pubescent, densely many flowered, subcapitate inflorescence enveloped below by pellucid, amplexicaul, acute bracts and has shorter or as long as the ovary, ovate, acuminate, glabrous floral bracts and carrying successively 1 to 3 at one time, short-lived, non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms Cranichis costaricensis Schltr. 1923; Cranichis pilosa Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Cranichis subcordata Schltr.1906; Cranichis viereckii Ames 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as C pilosa drawing fide; Flora De Venezuela Vol 15 Part 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 Drawing fide/photo ok; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok;

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