Cranichis badia Renz ex Kolan. & Szlach. 2014 Badia Group 5

TYPE Drawing by ©A Krol and Kolan. & Szlach and The Research Gate Website

LATER

Common Name or Meaning The Dull Brown Red Cranichis

Flower Size

Found in Cundinamarca and Nariño departments of Colombia and Merida and Tachira states of Venezuela, Bolivar, Cotopaxi, Pichincha, Tungurahua and Loja provinces of Ecuador at elevations of 2300 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, in a basal rosette, narrow, canaliculate, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on a to 12.8" [32 cm] long, overall, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, brown, lip white with brown venation flowers.

"Cranichis badia is similar to C. engelii known from Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, but differs mainly by the ligulate-lanceolate to lanceolate petals (vs petals obliquely oblong-oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate), and elliptic-subrhombic, subacute to obtuse lip (vs lip suborbicular, rounded or truncate at the apex). Another species similar to C. badia is C. atrata C diphylla , C. fendleri, C. lehmannii , C. muscosa and C. tenuis ) by the brown flowers with clawed, elliptic-subrhombic, subacute to obtuse lip. Additionally, from C. diphylla it differs by the leaves cuneate at the base with elliptic to ovate elliptic blade (vs base cordate, blade ovate to broadly ovate), from C. muscosa by the linear, almost filiform petals (vs petals linear-ligulate to narrowly-oblanceolate) and from C. tenuis by the leaf shape and size 1.6 to 4.8" x .08 to 2" versus .36 to 2.4" x .24 to .8" (4 to 12 x 2 to 5 cm vs 0.9 to 6.0 x 0.6 to 2.0 cm)." Kolan. & Szlach. 2014

"The only species in the Badia group with the lip widest above the middle with permanently 3-veined sepals." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Nordic J. Bot. 32: 289 Kolan. & Szlach. 2014 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 32 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide

PhytoKeys 186: 17 Kolan., Baranow, S.Nowak & A.Fuentes 2021

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