Cranichis schlimii Rchb.f. 1876 Diphylla Group 9 Drawing by © Blanche Ames
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Common Name or Meaning Schlim's Cranichis [Belgian Orchid Collector 1819 - 1863]
Flower Size
Found in Merida state in Venezuela, Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Ecuador in montane forest at an altitude of 2,800 meters as a just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a single, basal, ovate, acute, rounded below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 11" [27.5 cm] long, provided with a few remote sheathing bracts, rachis to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, cylindrical, subdensely many flowered inflorecence with lanceolate, externally glandular, shorter than the ovary floral racts and carrying small, inconspicuous flowers.
"Distinguished by the nonfoliaceous scape, the bracts sparsely glandular-pubescent, green leaves, linear-oblanceolate, petals glabrous on the margins, ovary glandular-pubescent, lip obovate-cochleate, and the disc with the same texture throughout.
"This species could be related to C. nigrescens, from which it is easily distinguishable by lip shape (subrectangular to oblong-elliptic in outline, obtuse to slightly notched at the apex vs. ovate, widest at the base, subacute to subobtuse), and constantly 3-veined sepals (vs. 1-veined)." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Polish Bot. J. 58: 619 Szlach. & Kolan 2013 drawing fide
PeerJ 7-e7385: 85 Szlach. & Kolan. 2019 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 3: 55 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2020 drawing fide
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