Cranichis popayanensis Szlach. & Kolan. 2019Polyblephara group 7

Drawing by © A Krol, Kolan. & Szlach. 2019

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Common Name or Meaning The Popayan Cranichis [A city in southern Colombia]

Flower Size

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations of 2300 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, ovate, shortly acuminate, basally rounded into the narrowly canaliculate, elongate, petioalte base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, delicate, terete, peduncle 15.6" [39 cm] long, apically densely glandular, provided with 7 sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish small flowers.

"This species can be easily distinguished from other species classified in this group by having a pubescent anterior margin of the petals and a sparsely ciliate posterior one." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* PeerJ 7-e7385: 46 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 drawing fide

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 43 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide

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