Pelexia arechavaletae (Mytnik, Szlach. & Gorniak) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Pachygenium

TYPE Drawing of Pachygenium arechavaletae by © Mytnik, Szlach. & Górniak 2010

Common Name Arechavaleta's Pelexia [Uruguayan Mr. José Arechavaleta Collector of the type current]

Flower Size

Found in Montiviedo department of Uruguay at elevations around 100 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, stout, peduncle 18.8" [47 cm] long, glandular just below the rachis, denser towards the apex, provided with 4, cauline, acute, herbaceous, thin, adnate to the stem, longer than the internodes, sheathing bracts, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, multilateral, dense, to 445 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, thin, herbaceous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying densely glandular flowers.

"Characterized by large leaves and a stout stem. The spur is large and swollen, the lip is weakly divided into an epichile and a hypochile which is narrowest at the base and widest in the middle and furnished with fleshy relatively broad auricles. The epichile is transversely elliptic, obtuse and as long as wide." Mytnik, Szlach. & Górniak 2010

Synonyms *Pachygenium arechavaletae Mytnik, Szlach. & Górniak 2010

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ann. Bot. Fenn. 47: 218 Mytnik, Szlach. & Górniak 2010

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

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