Cranichis apiculata Lindl. 1842 Ciliata Group 3
Photo by © The Microplanta Guatemala Website
Photo by © Rodolfo Hernández and the Conaibo Banco de Imagenes Website
Scan by JSTOR and the JSTOR Plant Science Website
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
LATER
EARLY 
Common Name The Apiculate Cranichis
Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador in shady, montane oak forests in shady soils at elevations around 1200 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial orchid with basal, 5 nerved, green, oval-elliptic to suborbicular, abruptly acute to apiculate, broadly rounded to abruptly reduced below into the narrow, elongate, 3.2 to 4.4" [8 to 11 cm] long, winged, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 18" [to 45 cm] long, rachis cylindric, 3 to 6" [7.5 to 15 cm] long, 40 to 50 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts with white and green flowers marked with brown.
"Easily separated from others in the genus by the conspicuous apicule at the apex of the lip." Ames and Correll 1952
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* G.Bentham, Pl. Hartw.: 92 Lindley 1842
Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;
Orchids of Guatemala and Belize: 79 Ames and Correll 1952;
Selbyana Vol 10: 93 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing ok;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, etc 2005 photo ok;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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