Pelexia sagittata (Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Pachygenuim

TYPE Drawing by © J Mytnik-Ejsmont and Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 7 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

Common Name The Arrow-Shaped Pelexia [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size

Found in Brazil without locality as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with 3, basal, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms on an erect, termminal, stout, peduncle 10.8 to 11.6" [27 to 29 cm] long, provided with 4 to 5, acute, herbaceous,thin, adnate to the stem, longer than the internodes, basally glandular sheathing bracts, glandular just below the inflorescence, denser towards the apex, rachis 3.6 to 8" [9 to 20 cm] long, multilateral, dense, oblong-ovate, to about 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, thin, herbaceous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pedicellate, densely glandular flowers.

"Characterized by the spur parallel to the ovary, free in the apical part. The lip is oblong, very obscurely divided into the hypochile and the epichile, narrowest at the base, then gradually widening towards the apex, furnished with digitate auricles at the lip base. There is a small ovate thickening between the auricles. The epichile is wider than long, transversely elliptic, rounded to obtuse at the apex." Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

Synonyms Pachygenium sagittatum Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orchid Rev. 122: 76 J M H Shaw 2014

Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 7 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008 as Pachygenium sagittatum

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