Pelexia hirta (Lindl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenium
Photo by © Francisco Tobar and his Flickr Ecuador Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Dr. Leslie Garay
Drawing by © Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Photographs by Joăo Aguiar Nogueira Batista (A), Francisco Tobar (B), and Andrés Fonseca-Cortés (C). Plate preparation: Andrés Fonseca-Cortés and Lankesteriana 23(1): 98 Rinc.-González, Fonseca-Cortés & Salazar 2023
Common Name The Bristley Pelexia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Colombia, Tungurahua province of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in scrub and grasses and cultivated fields at elevations of 1600 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, somewhat flexuous, puberulent, peduncle to 7 to 16.2" [17.5 to 40.5 cm] long, enveloped loosely by 5, lanceolate, acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis to 2.2 to 7.8" [5.5 to 19.5 cm] long, rather densely spicate above, villose, subdensely many flowered inflorescence wityh linear-lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"The species has a lip prominently divided into the hypochile and the epichile that are devoid of any calli." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Gyrostachys hirta (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pachygenium hirtum (Lindl.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001; Pelexia sodiroi (Schltr.) Schltr. 1920; *Spiranthes hirta Lindl. 1840; Stenorrhynchos sodiroi Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 476 Lindley 1840 as Spiranthes hirta
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys hirta
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 14: 117 Schlechter 1915 as Stenorrhynchos sodiroi
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 402 Schlechter 1920
Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 405 Schlecher 1920 as Pelexia sodiroi
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing good;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 4 Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium hirtum
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo/drawing fide;
Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 324 Szlach.& Kolan. 2019 as Pachygenium hirtum
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