Pelexia ekmanii (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenium
TYPE Drawing by © Kraenzlin
Plant and Flowers in situ Argentina
Photos by © José A. Radins Argentina
Common Name Ekman's Pelexia [Swedish Botanist collected in Dominican Republic earlier 1900's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Brazil, Missiones province of Argentina and Paraguay at moderate elevations as a just medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a few, lanceolate, acuminate, not there at blooming, grading to bracts above leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, to 16" [35 cm] long, enveloped by 8, non imbricate, acuminate bracts, rachis to 4" [to 10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with linear, long acuminate, lower ones longer than the flowers, upper shorter that the flowers floral bracts and carrying flowers that face in all directions.
"The flowers are striking at first glance due to their antenna-like, spreading, lateral sepals. This feature is not found in any other previously described species. The pubescence extends to the labellum. The column is exceptionally soft-skinned and lacks the sometimes cartilaginous firmness of otherers in the genus." Kraenzlin 1911
Synonyms Pachygenium ekmanii (Kraenzl.) Szlach. R.González & Rutk. 2001; Spiranthes ekmanii (Kraenzl.) Hauman 1920; *Stenorrhynchos ekmanii Kraenzl 1911; Stenorrhynchos oestrifer var. minor Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 22 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos ekmanii
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): taf 4 fig 7 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos ekmanii
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(19): 23 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos oestrifer var. minor
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 401 Schlechter 1920
Anales Soc. Ci. Argent. 90: 127 Hauman 1920 as Spiranthes ekmanii
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 237 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43 tab 120 fig 3 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: 281 #444 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 4 Szlach. R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium ekmanii
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