Funkiella garciaperezii Salazar, Fortanelli & Cast.-Lara 2025
LCDP Photo by © Gerardo A Salazar and the Phytotaxa Website
Photos by © : Javier Fortanelli-Martínez (A-C) and Gerardo A. Salazar (D-F). and the Phytotaxa Website
Common Name Garcia Perez's Funkiella [Mexican, José García Pérez, botanist and former Curator of the herbaria CHAPA (Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillos) and SLPM (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí)
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Found in San Luis Potosi state of Mexico on rocks covered with mosses and lichens on a north-northeast facing, 30-45° slope at elevations of 2000 to 2050 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing litho-terrestrial with 1 to 3, fasciculate, fusiform, obtuse, sometimes somewhat irregular, dull yellow, glabrous, tuberoid roots giving rise to deciduous, absent at flowering time, when present 1 or less commonly 2 per plant, slightly fleshy, shortly petiolate; petiole pale green, channeled, blade grayish green, lustrous, irregularly bullate, ovate-elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, arising from the tip of the fascicle of roots, erect, 5.2 to 13.6" [13 to 34 cm ] long, long-pedunculate; peduncle 4 to 9.6" [10 to 24 cm ] long, glabrous, covered at base by a scarious, appressed, dark brown, obtuse to acute, remaining peduncle partially covered by 4 to 7 dull white to pale green, appressed, acute bracts; rachis glabrous, more or less one-sided, 1.52 to 4" [3.8 to 10 cm] long, successively 5 to 13 flowered inflorescence with about 3 flowers open at any one time and with pale green, sometimes with brownish midvein, glabrous, ovate, acuminate, 1-veined ,clasping and slightly shorter than the ovaries floral bracts.,
" Similar to Funkiella faucisanguinea but differs in the glabrous peduncle, rachis, ovary, and outer surface of the sepals; the dull brownish thickened area on the labellum hypochile; the prominent digitiform papillae on the ventral surface of the column; and the proportionately shorter, parallel pollinia." Salazar Fortanelli & Cast.-Lara 2025
Synonyms W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytotaxa a 702 (2): 121 © Salazar 2025 and the Magnolia Press Website
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