IOSPE PHOTOS

Pelexia viridis (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenium

Drawing by Š Hoehne

Drawing by Š Pabst

Common Name The Green Pelexia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Parana states of Brazil at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a few, quite small, bright green, rosulate, lanceolate-subspathulate, acute to shortly acuminate, glabrous on both sides, long attenuate below into the long 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, without leaves at blooming, peduncle 10.4" [26 cm] long, slightly flexuous, provided with a few, thinly membraneous, closely adpressed, long acuminate, glabrous sheathing bracts, rachis 1.6" [4 cm] long, densesly 5 to 6 flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, glabrous, slightly shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying secund flowers.

"Similar to Pelexia parva in habit and collected in the same area. The flowers with sparsely externally short haired are about .4" [1 cm] long, and have an almost sperical, medium sized sepal sac. The labellu ios described asobovate-lanceolate with a long tapered base and a triangular, pointed anterior lobe. The auricles at the base should be long and narrow." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms Pachygenium viride (Cogn.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001; *Stenorrhynchos viride Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Bras. 3(6): 538 Cogn.1906 as Stenorrhynchos viride

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 407 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 239 Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: Tab 125 Fig 2 Hoehne 1945 Drawing fide

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: $450 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

Polish Bot. J. 46: 4 Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium viridum

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