Cranichis lankesteri Ames 1923
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Drawing by © Atwood
Common Name Lankester's Cranichis [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in deep shade of virgin, wet cloud forests at elevations around 1450 to 1650 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to 1 to 2, glossy, dark olive green, ovate, subcordate into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, brownish red, pubescent above, peduncle to 9" [22 cm] long, provided with a few sheathing bracts, rachis to 1.6" [4 cm] long, successviely to 25 flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, greenish, narrowly lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying resupinate flowers.
Ames stated that the structure of the unguiculate lip is unlike any other Cranichis species in Central America.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Schedul. Orchid. 4: 5 Ames 1923
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1417 Atwood & Mora 1992 drawing fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993 photo fide;
Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchioideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2003 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide;
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