Pelexia paludosa M.N.Correa 1953 SECTION Pachygenuim

TYPE Drawing by © M N Correa

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Common Name The Pale Pelexia

Flower Size

Found in Chaco and Corrientes departments of Argentina in marshes and lagoons often on floating masses of vegetation at elevations below 600 meters as a medium to large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of lanceolate, acute apically, attenuate below into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall on an erect, terminal, thick, peduncle 14 to 28" [35 to 70 cm] long, glabrous, provided with 6 to 7, lanceolate, acute, decreasing in size towards the apex sheathing bracts, rachis 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, abundantly glandular pubescent, several flowered inflorescence with acute, shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying yellowish green flowers with the exterior abundantly glandular-pubescent.

"Similar to Pelexia bonariensis in siuze, shape and arrangement of the leaves and the color of the flowers, but differs in the bracts, which in this species never exceeds the flowers, the spur which is much more noticeable and in the lip which is glabrous amd consists of a single oval lamina that narrows to continue straight.I P bonariensis it has a patch of hairs at the base and a very markedly apical lobe." M N Correa 1953

Synonyms Pachygenium paludosum (M.N.Correa) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Darwiniana 10: 166 M N Correa 1953

Darwiniana 10: 161 M N Correa 1953 drawing fide

Polish Bot. J. 46: 5 Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium paludosum

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