Funkiella faucisanguinea (Dod) Salazar 2025

LCDP Photo by © Gerardo A Salazar and the Phytotaxa Website

TYPE Drawing of Scheidella faucisanguinea

Drawing by © Donald Dod and The Harvard University Website

Common Name The Blood Red Throat Funkiella

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic and Mexico at elevations around 2000 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an ovoid tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying 1 to 2 [much smaller], lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, erect, several to many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, widely long-acuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts abd carrying diurnally fragrant flowers

CAUTION! Similar to Funkiella parasitica and may be conspecific with but I have left them separate pending more information!

Synonyms Schiedeella faucisanguinea (Dod) Burns-Bal. ex A.E.Serna & López-Ferr. 1998; *Spiranthes faucisanguinea Dod 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Moscosoa 1: 3:60 Dod 1978 drawing fide as Spiranthes faucisanguinea

* Phytotaxa a 702 (2): 125 © Salazar 2025 and the Magnolia Press Website

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