Spiranthes delitescens Sheviak 1990
Photo by © Jim Rorabaugh and The US Forestry Service Celebrating Wildlife Web site
Plant Flowering in Community Pot
Photo by © Aaron Hicks
TYPE Drawing by © Charles Sheviak
LATE 
Common Name The Hidden Spiralis [refers to its isolated and longun suspected occurence]
Flower Size
Found in southwestern Arizona in marshy meadows, seeps and hummocks in streams at elevations arounds 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with tuberous thickened roots giving rise to basal and cauline, the later 5 to 10 and only gradually reducing upwards into sheathing bracts, linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, persisting after antithesis leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, glabrous below, pubescent above, peduncle 8.8 to 16" [22 to 40 cm] long, provided with 8, lowest largest and most free, more clasping above sheathing bracts, .8 to 2.8" [2 to 7 cm] long, open to dense, many flowered inflorescence with acuminate to attenuate floral bracts and carrying fragrant, tubular, becoming wide spreading flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Wild Orchids of North America North of Mexico P M Brown 2003 photo ok;
Orchid Digest Vol 71 #3 2007 photo fide;
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