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Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae

Characteristics

Herbs terrestrial, sympodial. Roots several, fasciculate, thick, villous. Stems simple, rhizomatous. Leaves 1–many, often forming basal rosette; blade petiolate, not articulate, thin. Inflorescences terminal, several-to many-flowered racemes, erect; scape with a few sheathing bracts. Flowers not resupinate; sepals and petals spreading, distinct, thin; lip concave, fleshy; column cylindric, short; anther erect, abaxial; pollinia 4, clavate, mealy, breaking apart in chunks, not powdery, attached to caudicle; stigma entire; rostellum apical, viscidium terminal; ovary pedicellate. Fruits capsules, erect.
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Small terrestrial herbs with basal leaves or rarely with reduced cauline leaves. Leaves sessile or petiolate, membranaceous. Scape slender, simple, with several bracts. Inflorescence a terminal spike. Sepals free, similar, or the laterals often broader. Petals free or obscurely adnate to the base of the column. Lip upper-most (i. e. flowers non-resupinate), sessile or rarely unguiculate, adnate to the base or up to the middle of the column, erect, plane, concave or saccate. Column short; rostellum erect, often as long as the column; pollen granular.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Cranichis world distribution map, present in Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30000670-2
WFO ID wfo-4000009555
COL ID 8VWJ6
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INPN ID 628108
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Synonyms

Cranichis

Lower taxons

Cranichis acuminatissima Cranichis amplectens Cranichis antioquiensis Cranichis candida Cranichis castellanosii Cranichis ciliata Cranichis crumenifera Cranichis diphylla Cranichis elliptica Cranichis engelii Cranichis galatea Cranichis garayana Cranichis glabricaulis Cranichis hassleri Cranichis hieroglyphica Cranichis lankesteri Cranichis lehmanniana Cranichis lehmannii Cranichis lichenophila Cranichis longipetiolata Cranichis macroblepharis Cranichis muscosa Cranichis notata Cranichis nudilabia Cranichis reticulata Cranichis saccata Cranichis scripta Cranichis sparrei Cranichis subumbellata Cranichis sylvatica Cranichis tenuis Cranichis wageneri Cranichis werffii Cranichis calva Cranichis ovata Cranichis parvula Cranichis picta Cranichis polyantha Cranichis ricartii Cranichis cristalinensis Cranichis queremalensis Cranichis schlechteri Cranichis rotundifolia Cranichis brevirostris Cranichis silvicola Cranichis gracilis Cranichis zarucchii Cranichis carlos-parrae Cranichis turkeliae Cranichis foliosa Cranichis gibbosa Cranichis brachyblephara Cranichis callifera Cranichis ciliilabia Cranichis cochleata Cranichis fendleri Cranichis pulvinifera Cranichis revoluta Cranichis talamancana Cranichis apiculata Cranichis glandulosa
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