Pelexia konsikiana (Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Pachygenium

TYPE Drawing by © J Mytnik-Ejsmont/ Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

EARLY

Common Name Konsik's Pelexia [Australian-Polish Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size

Found in Santa Catarina state of Brazil at elevations below 600 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 3, in a basal rosette, lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the .4" [1 cm] long petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, stout, peduncle 6.4"[16 cm] long, slightly glandular below, densely glandular near the apex, rachis to 3.6" [9 cm] long, multilateral, densely to about 30 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, thin, herbaceous, sparsely glandular in the basal half floral bracts.

Closely related to Pelexia itatiayae as both species have a rhomboid hypochile, widest in the middle but the epichile of P konsikiana is transversely elliptic and narrower than the hypochile, whereas in P itatiayae the epichile is cordate and often as wide as the hypochile. They also differ in the position of the spur, in P itatiayae it is directed forward but, in P konsikiana it is parallel to the ovary." Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.2008

Synonyms *Pachygenium konsikianum Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 4 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.2008 as Pachygenium konsikianum Drawing fide

*Orchid Rev. 122: 76 JMH Shaw 2014

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