Deiregyne tenorioi Soto Arenas & Salazar 2012 Photo by © Soto Arenas, Greenwood & Salazar and A new species of Deiregyne (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae) from Mexico Una nueva especie de Deiregyne (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae) de México Website

Type Drawing Drawing by © Soto Arenas and A new species of Deiregyne (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae) from Mexico Una nueva especie de Deiregyne (Orchidaceae, Spiranthinae) de México Website

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Common Name Tenorio's Deiregyne [Mexican Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Puebla, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Tlaxcala and México State of Mexico at elevations around 1800 to 2800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, in a basal rosette, bright green on the upper side, greyish-green and somewhat glaucous on the underside, narrowly linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, base attenuate and channeled, apex acuminate, mid-vein dorsally carínate, withered to absent at blooming leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, erect, terete 9 to 13 internoded, bronzy to green brown, glabrous below, sparsely glandular pubescent above, 4.4 to 20" [11 to 50 cm] long, enveloped by papery, translucent whitish with brown lines sheaths, rachis sparsely and shortly glandular pubesent, .8 to 4" [2 to 10 cm] long, 3 to 13 flowered inflorescence carrying diurnally fragrant flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez Lopez & Dressler 2005 photo fide; *Act. Bot. Mex no.101 Pátzcuaro Soto & Salazar oct. 2012 drawing/photo fide

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