Cranichis lehmannii Rchb.f. 1878
Photos by © Andreas Kaye and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name Lehmann's Cranichis [German Council and Orchid Collector in South America 1800's]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Antioquia deoartment of Colombia, Tungurahua province of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in upper montane cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 5, basal, erect-patent, ovate, subacuminate, shortly and obliquely cordate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle 9.6 to 19.6" [24 to 49 cm] long, provided with 6 to 9, remote sheaths, rachis 1 to 4.2" [2.5 to 10.5 cm] long, conic, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with linear-setaceous, acuminate, as long as the ovaries floral bracts and carrying small, glabrous flowers.
"Distinguished by the foliaceous peduncle, the glabrous ovary, the lip with a membraneous margin, the disc of the lip 3 nerved, papillose-verrucose, the single nerved, linear-oblong petals with entire margins, the elongate, narrowly cylindric to conical, subdensely many flowered inflorescence, the elliptic lip and the apical 1/4 of the disc that is cushion-like and ballooned out. C cylindrostachys and this species are very similar and separated mostly by the shorter 1 to 4.2" [2.5 to 10.5 cm] long, and conical inflorescence verus in C cylindrostachys it is 4.4 to 6" [11 to 15 cm] long and cylindrical." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Otia Botanica Hamburgensia: 4 Rchb.f 1878;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 128 Hoehne 1945;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing ok;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as C lehmanniana not!!photo fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing good but no cilia on the petals;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo not = C ciliata;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
PeerJ 7-e7385: 45 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 48 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 504-505 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 photos fide
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