15. Cranichis stictophylla Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 62. 1920.

Type.

COLOMBIA. Madero s.n. (B†).

Diagnosis.

Plants 33-36 cm tall. Leaf 1, basal, petiolate; petiole 3-4 cm long; blade 4.5-6.5 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, ovate, acuminate, base subrounded-cuneate, white spotted. Scape glandulous-pilose toward the apex, enclosed in 5-6 sheaths. Inflorescence 3-6 cm long, cylindrical, sublaxly to subdensely 15-flowered. Flowers greenish-white, glabrous. Floral bracts 2.1-4 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely glandular. Pedicellate ovary 7-7.5 mm long, densely glandular-ciliate. Dorsal sepal 2.9-3 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, oblong elliptical, obtuse, 1-veined. Petals 2.9-3 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, obliquely linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, glabrous, 1-veined. Lateral sepals 3 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, obliquely elliptic-ovate, slightly concave at base, subacuminate, obtuse, obscurely 2-veined. Lip 2.5 mm long, 2.0-1.9 mm wide, slightly concave, sessile, ovate, rounded or obtuse; disc with 3 or 5 dendritic thick branching veins, with prominent nodules. Gynostemium 1-1.3 mm long. Fig. 17.

Habitat and ecology.

Terrestrial in Tucumano-Boliviano cloud forest and disturbed forest with Prumnopitys Phil. ( Podocarpaceae), Myrtaceae, Dicksonia L’Hér . ( Dicksoniaceae, and Cyathea Kaulf. ( Cyatheaceae) at altitudes between 2100-2200 m. Flowers in June.

Representative specimens.

BOLIVIA. Santa Cruz: Prov. Florida, 7 km NE of Mairana. Southern limit of expanded Parque Nacional Amboró, entering from Mairana, 2200 m. 2 June 1991. M. Nee 40653 (LPB!), Prov. Vallegrande, 5 km de Loma Larga a Vallegrande. 7 June 1996. M. Kessler et al. 6352 (LPB!). Fig. 2.

Notes.

This species is often considered as conspecific with C. diphylla (e.g. Garay 1978) from which it differs, e.g., in having a 1-veined dorsal sepal.