Cyclopogon pringlei (S.Watson) Soto Arenas 1988
SUBGENUS Beadlea [Small] Szlach 1993
Photo by Gilberto Ponce Tejeda and the I Naturalist Website
Photo by Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez and the I Naturalist Website
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EARLY 
Common Name Pringle's Cyclopogon [American botanist around 1870 to 1900]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Vera Cruz and Jalisco states of Mexico in moist plains at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial without leaves at blooming, that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, terminal, peduncle 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, puberulent, provided with 5 to 6 scattered, acute to acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, loosely few flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers
CAUTION!! I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use wqith caution.!!!
Synonyms Beadlea pringlei (S.Watson) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986; *Spiranthes pringlei S.Watson 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 153 S Watson 1891 as Spiranthes pringlei
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30: 181 Garay 1985 publ. 1986 as Beadlea pringlei
* Orquidea (Mexico City), n.s., 11: 270 Soto Arenas 1988
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