Pelexia chironiana (Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Pachygenium

TYPE Drawing by © J Mytnik-Ejsmont/Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 SECTION Pachygenium

Common Name Chiron's Pelexia [French botanist current]

Flower Size

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a single, basal, lanceolate, acute, long petiolate 28" [70 cm] long, base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle 14" [35 cm] long, provided with 6, acute, herbaceous, thin, adnate to the stem, longer than the internodes, glabrous, rachis to 2.4" [6 cm] long, to about 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, thin, herbaceous, rather densely glandular outwards, longer than the ovary floral bracts

"P chironiana is easily distinguished from others by the lip structure and swollen spur which is perpendicular to the ovary. The hypochile is ovate-triangular, widest at the apex, the narrowest at the base and gradually widening up to the truncate apex. The epichile is slightly narrower than the hypochile, subquadrate to suborbicular and slightly mucronate at the apex." Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

Synonyms Pachygenium chironianum Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Orchid Rev. 122: 76 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2014

Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 6 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008 as Pachygenium chironianum

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