Funkiella valerioi (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Salazar & Soto Arenas 2011

Drawing by Silvia Troyo

LATE EARLIER

Common Name Valerio's Scaphyglottis [Costa Rican Collector of the type 1900's]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Oaxaca state of Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica in oak forests at elevations of 2400 to 3200 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 3, ovoid to subglobose, pilose tubers giving rise to a single, basal, obvate-lanceolate, in place during flowering, acute, long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and earlier winter on an erect, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, laxly 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, long-acuminate, scarious, lowermost largest, erect and clasping the ovaries floral bracts and carrying whitish green flowers with a pale rose tinge.

Apparently related to Funkiella parasitica but differs in the lip form. Similar to Microthelys nutantiflora but its flowers are smaller and they have differently shaped petals.

Synonyms Spiranthes parasitica var. valerioi (Ames & C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1950; Schiedeella valerioi (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Szlach. & Sheviak 1990; *Spiranthes valerioi Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930; but

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Schedul. Orchid. 10: 8 Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 as Spiranthes valerioi

Ceiba 1: 186 L O Williams 1950 as Spiranthes parasitica var. valerioi

Rhodora 92: 16 Szlach. & Sheviak 1990 as Schiedeella valerioi

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;

* Acta Bot. Mex. 97: 52 Salazar & Soto Arenas 2011

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Schiedeella valeroi

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