Cranichis candida (Barbosa) Cogn. 1895 Diphylla Group 9
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Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Plant in situ Alto de la Serra do Moji - Dos Cruzes Brazil with a Spider crab (Thomisus spectabilis)
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Common Name or Meaning The White Cranichis
Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Parana and Rio Grande do Sul states of Brazil in bright shady places at the forests edge in deep humus as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial found in colonies with a basal rosette of 2 to 6, close to the ground, membraneous, shiny, oval to oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, acute, deep green, reticulate nerved, attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, provided with 2 to 4, adpressed sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6 to 4" [4 to 10 cm] long, to 60 flowered inflorescence with patent, lanceolate, acuminate shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Related to Cranichis muscosa but differs in the larger, not acute, narrow sheathing bracts, not enlarged by the leafy opening, the rhizome and the portion under the rhizome hairy not bald and the nature of the labellum." Reichenbach 1878
Synonyms Cranichis micrantha Griseb. 1879; Cranichis microphylla Porsch 1905; Cranichis parviflora L.O.Williams 1938; Cranichis similis Rchb.f. 1881; *Cystochilum candidum Barb.Rodr. 1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 198 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Cystochilum candidum
Otia Botanica Hamburgensia: 83 Rchb.f 1878 as C similis;
Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 24: 337 Griseb 1879 as Cranichis micrantha nom. illeg.
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 248 Cogniaux 1895
Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab 58 Cogniaux 1895 drawing fide
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 249 Cogniaux 1895 as C micrantha
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 153 Porsch 1905 as Cranichis microphylla
An. Mem. Inst. But., Bot. vol. I, fase. IV: 33 Schlechter 1922
Arch. de Bot. Est. S. Paulo, vol. I: 186 Hoehne & Schlechter 1927
Lilloa 3: 478 L.O.Williams 1938 as Cranichis parviflora
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 132 Hoehne 1945 as C micrantha;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 132 Hoehne 1945 as C microphylla;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 132 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: tab 77 fig 3 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 123 Hoehne 1945 as C similis;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide;
Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 drawing/photo ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as C similis drawing hmm;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 drawing fide/photo ok;
Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide;
The Organ Mountains Its history and its orchids Miller, Warren, Miller and Seehauer 2008 drawing fide/photo ok;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo Vol 1 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing good/photo hmm petals;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo ok
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