Deiregyne albovaginata (C.Schweinf.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982 Photo courtesy of Eduoard Faria

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The White Vaginate Deiregyne

Flower Size

Found in central and SW Mexico on rocky hills and grassy openings in pine/oak forests at elevations of 1900 to 2100 meters as an erect, leafless at flowering, medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem and then a 10 to 12, imbricate, pale brown to white, very thin, almost transluscent, papery, sheathing bracts and then an inflorescence that is to 6" [15 cm] long carries 20 to 30 flowers held in several ranks and has glabrous, lanceolate, attenuate or narrowly acuminate floral bracts through which the narrow flowers protrude in the late winter and early spring.

Synonyms Schiedeella albovaginata (C.Schweinf.) Burns-Bal. 1981; *Spiranthes albovaginata C.Schweinf. 1937; Stenorrhynchos albovaginatum (C.Schweinf.) Szlach. 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galiciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Spiranthes albovaginata ; The Orchids of Mexico Hagsater 2005; The Orchids Of Mexico Digital Catalog Hagsater 2007