!Pelexia adnata (Sw.) Poit. ex Rich 1818 SECTION Pelexia
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Drawing by © M Henriquez/Ackerman 1995
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Common Name The Grown Upon Pelexia
Flower Size .18" [4 mm]
Found in Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Isla de Margarita Venezuela and ?Colombia in deep forests in shade in leaf litter and humus at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with fasciulate, fusiform, fleshy roots giving rise to 1 to 4, rosulate, green, often pinkish, sometimes white spotted, narrowly ovate, to elliptic-oblong, acute, 5 nerved, basally rounded, long petiolate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, robust, peduncle 10 to 25.6" [25 to 64 cm] long, glabrous throughout to glabrous below, glandular pubescent above, reddish suffused, provided with 4 to 9, tubular, acute to acuminate, lowermost usually longer than the internode, shorter above sheathing bracts, rachis 2 to 10.4" [5 to 26 cm] long, pubescent, rather laxly, 10 to 40 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Pelexia adnata is one of the smallest flowered in the genus and characterized by the relatively long petiolate base leaves and the rather laxly many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Adnula petiolaris Raf. 1837; Collea adnata (Sw.) Lindl. 1823; Neottia adnaria Raf. 1837; Neottia adnata (Sw.) Sw. 1806; Pelexia spiranthoides Lindl. 1826; Pelexia stenorrhynchoides Griseb. 1866; *Satyrium adnatum Sw. 1788; Spiranthes adnata (Sw.) León 1946; Spiranthes stenorrhynchoides (Griseb.) León 1946
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 118 Sw. 1788 as Satyrium adnatum
Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1409 Sw. 1806 as Neottia adnata
* Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. 4: 59 Poit. ex Rich. 1818
Bot. Reg. 9: t. 760 Raf 1823 as Collea adnata
Bot. Reg. 12: t. 985 Lindl. 1826 as Pelexia spiranthoides
Bot. Reg. 12: t. 985 Lindl. 1826 as Pelexia spiranthoides drawing fide
Fl. Tellur. 2: 87 Raf. 1837 as Adnula petiolaris
Fl. Tellur. 2: 87 Raf 1837 as Neottia adnaria
Cat. Pl. Cub.: 269 Griseb. 1866 as Pelexia stenorrhynchoides
Cat. Pl. Cub.: 269 Griseb. 1866 as Pelexia spiranthioides
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae: 329 Urban 1909;
Flora of Jamaica: 21 Fawcett & Rendle 1910;
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939;
Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio "De La Salle" 8: 358 Leon 1946 as Spiranthes adnata
Contr. Ocas. Mus. Hist. Nat. Colegio "De La Salle" 8: 357 Leon 1946 as Spiranthes stenorrhynchoides
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1: 305 1969 as Spiranthes adnata
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1: 307 1969 as Spiranthes adnata drawing good;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 68 Garay & Sweet 1974
Flora of the Lesser Antilles: 70 Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing not = Pelexia leucosticta;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1975 as Spiranthes adnata not = Pelexia leucosticta;
AOS Bulletin Vol 61 # 10: 1023 1992 drawing fide;
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: 124 Ackerman 1995
An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: 125 Ackerman 1995 drawing fide;
Orquidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo ok?;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles: 355 Ackerman 2014
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles: 356 Ackerman 2014 drawing fide
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 348 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 349 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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