Pelexia matucanensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pelexia
TYPE Drawing of Spiranthes pachyrhiza by © Kraenzlin
Collection Sheet by © Kraenzlin
Common Name The Matucana Pelexia [A town in Lima department of Peru]
Flower Size
Found in Ecuador and Lima department of Peru at elevations around 2700 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with about 4, elliptic-oblong, acute, spotted leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle provided with and almost completely enveloping, imbricate, acute, sheathing bracts, rachis many flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish yellow, waxy looking, unscented flowers
Synonyms *Spiranthes matucanensis Kraenzl. 1916; Spiranthes pachyrhiza Kraenzl. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 410 Schlechter 1920
Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 117: 16 Kraenzlin 1916 as Spiranthes matucanensis
Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 117: 16 Kraenzlin 1916 as Spiranthes pachyrhiza
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