Cranichis crumenifera Garay 1962 Ocampoa Group
Photo by Alexander Hirtz
Photo by Carlos Uribe Velez
Type Collection sheet by © Dressler and Harvard Orchid Collection Website
TYPE Drawing by © E W Smith and Garay and Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The Bag Carrying Cranichis
Flower Size
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 2600 to 3200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, peduncle 3.6 to 8" [9 to 20 cm] long, enveloped by 4, tubular, acute to acuminate sheathsing bracts, rachis to 2" [to 5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to narrowly ovate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish white flowers.
Distinguished by the cauline leaves, the glabrous ovary, the single nerved dorsal sepal, the 3 nerved lateral sepals, the single nerved petals with sparsely ciliate margins and the prominent sack-like base of the lip.
Synonyms Ocampoa crumenifera (Garay) Szlach. & Kolan. 2015 publ. 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Caldasia 8: 518 Garay 1962 drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;
Pl. Syst. Evol. 301: 723 Szlach & Kolan. 2015 publ. 2014
PeerJ 7-e7385: 45 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 80 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa crumenifera drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: plate 73 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa crumenifera photo fide
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