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SUBMITTER: Szlachetko DL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690379 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Szlachetko Dariusz L DL Kolanowska Marta M
PeerJ 20190809
The geographical range of the orchid genus <i>Cranichis</i> extends from USA, Central America, and the Caribbean to Bolivia and Argentina-with the greatest diversity observed in the Andean region. This taxon embraces herbs with the scape and basal leaves developing from a single, terminal bud and having the scape enclosed in several sheaths. The small, non-resupinate, flowers are arranged in a racemose inflorescence. The petals and lip are free from the column part and their gynostemium is short ...[more]