Cranichis gibbosa Lindl. 1845 Ocampoa Group

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Common Name The Humped Cranichis

Flower Size Small

Found in Colombia and Carchi & Pichincha provinces of Ecuador in open exposed areas of cloud forests at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with several, basal, rosulate, narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate, imbricating sheath base leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 10" [25 cm] long, obliquely ascending, provided with several, distant sheathing bracts, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, more or less secund, loosely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to subacuminate shorter than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying small, white flowers with more or less spreading segments.

Distinguished by the foliaceous peduncle, the glabrous sepals that are more than .12" [3mm] long, the secund rachis, the linear-oblong petals with 3 nerves, and the saccate entire lip with the same texture throughout, as long as broad, membraneous, lip without a central keel.

"This species resembles C cucullata , from which it differs by the 3-veined petals, which are shortly clawed and ovate above the claw (vs. 1-veined, obliquely ligulate, and widened near the middle). More- over, the lateral sepals of C. gibbosa are obliquely ovate, obtuse, and 2- to 3-veined, while in C. cucullata these are strongly obliquely ovate, subacute, and 1- veined." Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

Synonyms Cranichis ecuadorensis Schltr. 1917; Ocampoa gibbosa (Lindl.) Szlach. & Kolan. 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 15: 385 Lindley 1845

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 49 Schlechter 1917 as Cranichis ecuadorensis

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 128 Hoehne 1945; Flora of Ecuador No 9 Vol 225 [1] Orchidceae Garay 1978;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok;

Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005;

Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014

Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 102: 718 Szlach. & Kolan. 2017 as Ocampoa gibbosa

PeerJ 7-e7385: 45 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 2019 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 83 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa gibbosa

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 84 fig96 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 as Ocampoa gibbosadrawing fide

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