Pelexia ecuadorensis Schltr. 1921 SECTION Pelexia
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
TYPE Drawing by © Mansfield/Schlechter
EARLY 
Common Name The Ecuadorian Pelexia
Flower Size .2" 5 mm]
Found in Chimborazo province of Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 5 to 6, in a basal rosette, ovate, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 12 to 13" [30 to 32.5 cm] long, provided with about 4, clasping, acuminate, rachis, 5" [12.5 to 20 cm] long, glandular-pubescent, loosely several flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the lower flowers, as long as the upper flowers floral bracts.
"Distinguished by its narrow, only slightly protruding sepal sac." Schlechter 1921
Also Distinguished by the lip form, especially the lack of any calli and the relatively small, entire, nonundulate margined epichile that is narrower than the hypochile." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 47 Schlechter 1921
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 47: taf 78 #302 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 198 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #12: 763 2011 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 345 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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