Cranichis ciliata [Kunth] Kunth 1822 Ciliata Group 3
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Another Flower with pollina exposed
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Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Drawing by Fritz Hamer
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Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Cranichis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Antioquia, Cundinamarca, Cauca, valle de Cauca, Colombia, Napo, Pichincha, Ecuador, the Galapagos, Aragua state of Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, and western Argentina in cloud forests at elevations around 750 to 3000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to to cold growing terrestrial with a few basal, matte clear green with dark green, elliptic, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and again in the fall on an erect, purple, narrow, peduncle, remotely several sheathed, glabrous below, pubescent above, to 18 to 21.6" [45 to 54 cm] long, cylindric rachis, 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long, loosely to subdensely many [40] flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers marked with green or purple-brown.
C ciliata is similar to Cranichis sylvatica but differs in the orbiculate lip and the midstripe of the disk which extends beyond the lateral stripes and branches near the apex." Schweinfurth 1952
Distinguished by the nonfoliaceous peduncle, the green leaves, the petals cilate along the margins, the glabrous ovary, the single nerved dorsal sepal and the 2 nerved lateral sepals.
Synonyms Cranichis pachnodes Løjtnant 1977; Cranichis sororia Schltr. 1921; *Ophrys ciliata Kunth 1816
Cranichis mandonii Schltr. 1922; Cranichis pleioneura Schltr. 1920; Cranichis polyblephara Schltr. 1920; Cranichis schlimii Rchb.f. 1876;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 334 HBK 1816 as Ophrys ciliata Kunth 1816 nom. illeg.
*Syn. Pl. Aequin. 1: 324 Kunth 1822
Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 43 Schlechter 1921 as C sororia;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: Taf 76 #297 1929 as C sororia drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 128 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 129 Hoehne 1945 as C sororia;
Orchids of Guatemala: 80 Ames & Correl 1952;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1: 80 Schweinfurth 1958;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as C ciliata not = C antioquenisis;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 drawing fide;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide;
Bot. Not. 130: 164 Lojant 1977 as Cranichis pachnodes
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Las Orquideas De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1210 Hamer 1985 drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer: 94 1988 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 photo fide to photos 3 & 4;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide to the 3 & 4 photo;
Macchu Picchu Orchids Christenson 2003;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum,Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 photo fide;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide/photo good;
Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 1 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2012 drawing fide good;
Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Orquideologia 2014 photo fide to photo 3 & 4;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
PeerJ 7-e7385: 45 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 2019 drawing fide
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 26 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 27 fig 17-18 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 500-502 Plate 10-17 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 photos fide
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C pleioneura;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C polyblephara;
Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten V Bolivia Schlechter 1922 as C mandonii;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 19 1929 as C pleioneura drawing fide;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: 19 1929 as C polyblephara drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C mandonii;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C pleioneura;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C polyblephara;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 Hoehne 1945 as C schlimii;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as C schlimii;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 as C schlimii;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0313 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as C mandonii drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 as C schlimii;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as C lehmannii photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as C pleioneura drawing/photo fide;
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