Pelexia callifera (C. Schweinf.) Garay 1978 Photos © by Joost Riksen and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage
Plant Photos © by G Chiron and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Plant and flowers in situ Surinam Photo © Werkhoven
Inflorescence? Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage
Common Name The Callus Carrying Pelexia
Flower Size .1" [.25 cm]
Found in Belize? and Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Ecuador and Peru in lower montane forests at elevations around 200 to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a basal rosete of about 7, serrated edge, ovate-lanceolate, dark green with central cream markings, acute to acuminate, broadly cuneate and abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, canaliculate, petiolate base leaves and blooms on a pilose, terminal, 12" [30 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION I am not 100% sure of the following ID for the photo by the Belize Botanical Garden. All references that I have say Panama and South America and I can find none for Belize.
Synonyms Spiranthes callifera C. Schweinf. 1962
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes callifera drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 as Spiranthes callifera photo ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Native Orchids of Ecuador Vol IV Dodson 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok
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