Spiranthes brevilabris var. floridana (Wherry) Luer 1972
Photo by © Carl Luer
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name or Meaning The Short Lip Spiranthes Florida Variety - The Florida Ladies Tresses
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Florida as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with numerous elongate fasiculate roots giving rise to 3 to 5, basal, yellow green, ovate, petiolate base leaves ascending into bracts above that blooms in the mid winter through mid spring on an erect, terminal, slender, sparsely pubescent to glabrous, yellow green, to 16" [40 cm] long, in a single rank, secund or spiraled, to 35 flowered inflorescence with light green ovate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish flowers with yellow centers.
Synonyms *Ibidium floridanum Wherry 1931; Spiranthes floridana (Wherry) Cory 1936; Spiranthes gracilis var. floridana (Wherry) Correll 1940; Spiranthes lacera var. floridana (Wherry) B.Boivin 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Washington Acad. Sci. 21: 49 Wherry 1931 as Ibidium floridanum
Rhodora 38: 405 Cory 1936 as Spiranthes floridana
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 8: 76 Correll 1940 as Spiranthes gracilis var. floridana
*The Native Orchids Of Florida: 104 Luer 1972 Drawing/photo fide
Phytologia 42: 392 B Boivin 1979 as Spiranthes lacera var. floridana
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