Pelexia delicatula Szlach. & Veyret 1994 SECTION Pelexia

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko & Veyret 1994

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Delicate Pelexia

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in French Guiana in dense wet forests in humus at elevations around 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing, delicate terrestrial with 2 basal, obliquely elliptic-lanceoalte, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle 6.8 [17 cm] long, provided with a few tighly clasping tubular, acute sheaths, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 39: 471 Szlach. & Veyret 1994

Orchids of French Guiana: 57 Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2012

Orchids of French Guiana: 58 Szlachetko, Veyret etal 2012 drawing fide

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