!Funkiella hymenalis (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1920

Plant ensitu Photo courtesy of Eduoard Faria

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Common Name The Delicate Funkiella

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Chihuahua, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guerrero, Mexico, District federal, Quintana Roo, Tlax, Oaxaca, Puebla, Hidalgo states of Mexico as well as Guatemala on humid slopes and rocks, grassy places, bluffs, pine/fir forests at elevations of 2200 to 3800 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial as a slender, glabrous plant with 1 to 3, basal or in the lower part of the stem, linear-lanceolate, acute, petiolate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, terminal, 2 to 4 flowered, pubescent inflorescence with sessile flowers that stand at right angles to the stem.

Synonyms Schiedeella hyemalis (A. Rich. & Galeotti) Burns-Bal. 1981; *Spiranthes hyemalis A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana McVaugh 1985 as Spiranthes hyemalis

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