Pelexia ecuadorensis Schltr. 1921
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Leon Glicenstein
Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Ecuadorian Pelexia
Flower Size .2" 5 mm]
Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations 2500 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 5, in a basal rosette, ovate, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, to 19.2" [to 48 cm] long overall, rachis, 5" [12.5 cm] long, loosely several flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 198 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #12 2011 photo fide;
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