Funkiella tenella (L.O.Williams) Szlach. 1994

Drawing by © Gerardo A Salazar and the Phytotaxa Website

TYPE Drawing of Spiranthes tenella

TYPE Drawing of Spiranthes tenella by © L O Williams

Common Name The Very Delicate Funkiella

Flower Size

Found in Durango and Chihuahua states of Mexico at elevations of 2000 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial without leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, thin, slender, erect peduncle provided with several, semi-amplexicaul, scarious, striated, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis short, lax, few flowered inflorescence with a snow white lip with yellowish brown veining, the sepals and petals are pink and veined with vandyke red.

"Funkiella tenella is closer to Lyroglossa pubicaulis than any other species previously described in the Spirantheae." L O Williams 1946

Synonyms Deiregyne tenella (L.O.Williams) Garay 1980 publ. 1982; Funkiella durangensis subsp. tenella (L.O.Williams) Szlach. 1991; Schiedeella tenella (L.O.Williams) Burns-Bal. 1981; *Spiranthes tenella L.O.Williams 1946 W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 12: 235 L O Williams 1946 as Spiranthes tenella

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 12: 251 L O Williams 1946 as Spiranthes tenella drawing fide

Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 8: 40 1981 as Schiedeella tenella

Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 313 1980 publ. 1982 as Deiregyne tenella;

Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 36: 20 Szlach. 1991 as Funkiella durangensis subsp. tenella

* Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 435 Szlach 1994

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