Pelexia xerophytica in ed. SECTION Pachygenuim

TYPE Drawing by © S Nowak and Szlachetko & Kolnowska 2019

Part Shade Cold LATE Spring EARLY Summer

Common Name The Xerophytic Pelexia [refers to plants that are adapted to survive in dry environments with little liquid water]

Flower Size

Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with up to 4, basal, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, stout, peduncle 5 to 8.4" [12.5 to 21 cm] long, glabrous in the lower part, glandular above, provided with 4 to 9 narrow, acute, herbaceous, sheathing bracts, rachis 2.2 to 3.6" [5.5 to 9 cm] long, dense to very densely, 4 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, thin, sparsely glandular externally to almost glabrous, twice as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying relatively large, externally densely glandular, narrowly tubular flowers

"Close to the Ecuadorian Pelexia hirta but differs in the hypochile narrower than the epichile versus hypochile wider than the epichile and possessing prominent calli on the hypochile in the forem of 2 parellel keels running through its center versus ecallos in P hirta." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms Pachygenium xerophyticum Szlach. & Kolan. 2019

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 325 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Pachygenium xerophyticum drawing fide

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