Pelexia laurense [C.M.Martín & Szlach.] in ed. Section Pachygenium
Photos by Claudia M. Martín/TYPE Drawing by Adriana M. Morales and PeerJ 10(e13433): 10 C.M.Martín & Szlach. 2022
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EARLY 
Common Name The Estancia Las Lauras Pelexia [where the species was forst discovered]
Flower Size
Found in Jujuy department of Argentina in the understorey of deciduous forests at elevations around 995 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3 to 4 basal, rosulate, somewhat fleshy, linear-oblonceolate, acute, absent at flowering, sessile leaves that blooms in the dry season, mid winter through early spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle to 8" [20 cm] long, reddish, glandular-pubescent, provided with 6 to 11, lowermost largest sheathing bracts, rachis 6.4 to 7.2" [16 to 18 cm] long, glandular-pubescent, densely to 50 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, reddish, acuminate, glandular-pubescent along the mid vein, 3 times longer than the ovary flora bracts and carrying rather small, cream-whitish-green, densely glandular flowers,
"Species leafless at anthesis, with very characteristic arrangements of the flowers in inflorescence, ecallose, undivided lip, and narrow, slender gynostemium." C.M.Martín & Szlach. 2022
Synonyms *Pachygenium laurense C.M.Martín & Szlach. 2022
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* PeerJ 10(e13433): 10 C.M.Martín & Szlach. 2022 Photos/Drawing fide
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