Hexalectris fallax M.I.Rodr. & R.González 2005 TYPE Drawing by © MARÍA IVONNE RODRÍGUEZ COVARRUBIAS Y ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ TAMAYO and

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Common Name The Similar Hexalectris [refers to the orchids similartity to H parviflora and H revolute]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Jalisco state of Mexico in holm oak forests among leaf litter and lesser so in oak/pine forests at elevations of 1700 to 1790 meters as a small sized, cool growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with a creeping to ascending, white rhiziome giving rise in the earlier spring to an erect, leafless, purple, cucullate sheathed, 8 to 14" [20 to 35 cm] long overall, rachis 2 to 5.2" [5 to 13 cm] long, filiform, secund to semicylinric, simultaneously 5 to 14 flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying long-lasting flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Ibugana BOLETÍN IBUG | JUNIO 19 DE 2004 | VOL. 12 |NÚM. 1 |pp. 17–21 MARÍA IVONNE RODRÍGUEZ COVARRUBIAS Y ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ TAMAYO Drawing fide

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