Pelexia macropoda (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr.1920 SECTION Pelexia
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Photo by © Hoehne 1945
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Common Name The Big Foot Pelexia
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Minas Gerais and Santa Catarina states of Brazil as a medium to large sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial carrying basal, rosulate, broadly elliptic, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, peduncle 18 to 24" [45 to 60 cm] long, provided with 5 to 7, well spaced, glabrous beneath, shortly and sparsely puberulent on top, lower ones rose colored, the upper green, strongly appressed, acuminate, rachis 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with linear, acute, as long as the flower floral bracts.
"Schlechter compared this species to Pelexia novofriburgensis although the pseudopetiole and the longer white spotted leaf blade , along with the much smnaller flowers distinguis it.. The lip is spathulate with a proportionally small and retuse apical blade is wider than in P novofriburgensis and the trilobed spur also distinguishes it." Hoehne 1945
Synonyms *Spiranthes macropoda Barb.Rodr. 1877; Stenorrhynchos macropodum (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr.1877
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 186 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Spiranthes macropoda
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1(Index): x Barb Rodr. 1877 as Stenorrhynchos macropodum
Flora Brasiliense Vol 3 Part 4: 169 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos macropodum
Flora Brasiliense Vol 3 Part 4: Tab 38 Fig 1 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos macropodum drawing fide
* Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 245 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 129 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing good;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: 282#455 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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