Cranichis cucullata Schltr. 1915 Ocampoa Group
Photo by R Galindo Tarazona/ Drawing by © N Oledrzynska, Kolan. & Szlach. 2019
Common Name or Meaning The Cucullate Cranichis
Flower Size
Found in Putumayo department of Colombia and Ecuador in montane forests at elevations of 2600 to 3200 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with basal and 2 cauline, decreasing in size upwards, narrowly elliptic, acute to apiculate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 20" [50 cm] long, glandular-puberulent above the base, provided with 2 to 4 sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8" [7 cm] long, sublaxly to densely 10 to many flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acuminate, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to Cranichis lehmanniana but C cucullata differs in not having a callus. The lip of O. cucullata lacks a callus, whereas in O. lehmanniana the lip lamina is ornamented with an obscure keel near the middle." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2017/2020 .
Synonyms Ocampoa cucullata (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kolan. 2017
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 115 Schlechter 1915
Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 102: 718 Szlach. & Kolan 2017 as Ocampoa cucullata
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 23 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa cucullata drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: Plate 77 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa cucullata
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