Pelexia lindmanii Kraenzl. 1911 SECTION Centropelexia Schltr.
Plant in situ Misiones Argentina
Photos by © José A. Radins and his The Flora of Misiones Blog Website
TYPE Drawing by © Kraenzlin
TYPE Drawing by © Hoehne
LATE 
Common Name Lindman's Pelexia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in southeastern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with basal, erect, thinly membraneous, oblong, acute, abruptly contracted below into the pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, erect, 18" to 20" [45 to 50 cm] long, rachis to 10" [to 25 cm] long, 20 to 35 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"The very long spur with an obtuse apex are dissimilar to the rest of the genus [at that time] and also with the very narrow flowers and lip with a wide apical blade." Hoehne 1945
Synonyms Pelexia stictophylla Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 18 Kraenzlin 1911
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 36 Schlechter 1925 as Pelexia stictophylla
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 242 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: tab 127 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1: 182 #462 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good; ;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1: 282 #462 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing good;
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