Cranichis ciliilabia C.Schweinf. 1949
Photo by © Rolando Jimenez and Fliker Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Collection sheet by © Dressler and Harvard Orchid Collection Website
Drawing by © R Jimenez and Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Orchids of Mexico part 2-3 plate 544 Hagsater & Soto 2002
Common Name The Hairy Lipped Cranichis
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Jalisco, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico on steep moist banks in wet montane and cloud, pine/oak forests at elevations of [300] 1200 to 1800 [3000] meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 4, basal, rosulate, ovate, acute to short-acuminate, broadly cuneate to subtruncate below into the slender, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, slender, glabrous below, glandular pubescent above, 2 to 4 sheathed, 8" [20 cm] long overall, rachis 1.6" [4.5 cm] long, loosely 17 to 24 flowered, apically nodding [with the immature flowers] inflorescence with clasping, obovate, abruptly apiculate, sparcely glandular-pubescent, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, pure white to pinkish, showy flowers with pink to red brown lines on the lip.
"It has relatively large, pure white flowers on a small, plant; the lip is very long-ciliated, and the ciliate petals are remarkably broad. The lip is marked with a design of arching outwards, red-brown lines, which converge near the base. It is somewhat variable in size." Hagsater & Soto 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 14: 49 C Schweinfurth 1949
Flora Novo-Galiciana 16, Orchidaceae: 63. McVaugh 1985
Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Orchids of Mexico part 2-3 plate 544 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide;
Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto etal 2005;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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