Cranichis pulvinifera Garay 1978 Pulvinifera Group 11
Photo by © Modesto Zarate B. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © G Larsen and Dr Leslie Garay
Common Name The Cushion Carrying Cranichis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia in forests on banks at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with several, basal, ovate, acute, rounded below into the canaliculate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, slender, peduncle to 11" [27.5 cm] long, provided with a few sheathing bracts, rachis short to 2.4" [6 cm] long, loosely few flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, greenish flowers.
Distinguished by the foliaceous peduncle, the glabrous ovary, the single nerved dorsal sepal, the triangular-obovate, membraneous margined, ovate lip, the 3 nerved, papillose-verrucose, ballooned out from the base to the middle of the disc of the lip, the single nerved, linear-oblong, entire margin petals, the short, broadly cylindic, loosely few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014;
Pl Sys and Evolution vol 301: Kolan & Szlach 2015
PeerJ 7-e7385: 85 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 61 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 Photo fide
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