Pelexia macropoda (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr.1920 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

Common Name The Big Foot Pelexia

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in southeastern and southern Brazil as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped by leafless and leaf bearing sheaths carrying broadly elliptic, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below intothe elongate, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, 7" [17.5 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with as long as the flower, linear, acute floral bracts

Synonyms *Spiranthes macropoda Barb.Rodr. 1877; Stenorrhynchos macropodum (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr., Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1(Index): x (187

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good;

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