Cranichis amplectens Dod 1986
TYPE Drawing Collection sheet by © Donald Dod and Harvard Carribean Orchid Collection Website
Common Name The Basally Clasping Cranichis [refers to the column that partially embraces the anther]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southwestern Domincan Republic in broadleaved forests at elevations around 1900 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, basal, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, reticulate, acuminate, gradually narrowing and cuneate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, slender, peduncle 4 to 14" [10 to 45 cm] long, provided with several tight, sheathing bracts, pubescent in the upper 1/4, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, loosely 15 to 30 flowered inflorescence with ciliate, subpubescent, lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish white, non-resupinate flowers.
"Very similar to C diphylla but differs in the sub-cordate, oblique, opaque surfaced, and a frequently crenulate margin leaf, and the flower with the sessile, apiculate lip, an unwinged column that embraces the anther." Dod 1986
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Moscosoa 4: 180 Dod 1986 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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