Cranichis antioquiensis Schltr 1920 Ciliata Group 3
Photos by © Alex Mora Mendez
Photos by © Karl Senghas
Another Flower? no hairs on petals
Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name The Antioquia Cranichis [A department of Colombia where the orchid occurs]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Antioquia, Magdalena, Norte de Santander, Santander, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Caldas, Valle de Cauca, Cauca, Nariño and Putumayo departments of Colombia and Azuay, Bolivar, Cañar, and Tungurahua provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 3500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2 basal, suberect, ovate, subacuminate, shortly cordate basally, glabrous, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, thick, peduncle 20.2 to 22.8" [51 to 57 cm] long, glabrous in the lower half, densely glandular above, provided with 3 to 7, distant shaething bracts, rachis to 3.2 to 5.6" [8 to 14 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"The species is characterized by the 3 veined dorsal and lateral sepals. The petals are densely and softly pubescent-papillate along both margins except at the base and the apex. C antioquensis resembles Cranichis ciliata but it is stronger and fleshier in all parts, with smaller flowers and different petals, lip and a thicker gynoostemium.
The photos by Alex Mora Mendez and Karl Senghas are absolutely correct, the photo by Alex Reynolds without hairy petals and with the longer lip is suspect as it came from Peru where to date the species has not been recorded according to references available to me at this time.
Synonyms Cranichis curtii Schltr. 1923; Cranichis irazuensis Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 57 Schlechter 1920;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 83. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as C curtii;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 84. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as C irazuensis;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 17 #63 Mansfield 1929 drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 128 Hoehne 1945;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3: 66-7 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as C ciliata not = C antioquenisis drawing fide;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo good;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 as C fertilis photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
PeerJ 7-e7385 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 23 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 24-25 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 Drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 498- 500 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 Drawing fide
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