Pelexia novofriburgensis (Rchb.f.) Garay 1980 publ. 1982 SECTION Pelexia
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Common Name or Meaning The Nova Friburgo Pelexia [Town in Brazil state of Rio de Janiero]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Ceara, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Parana staes of Brazil and Missiones department of Argentina as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped partially by lanceolate, acute, pubescent sheaths and carrying 2?, broadly elliptic, dark green white blotched, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, peduncle to 8" [20 cm] long, provided with a 4 to 6, distant, triangular, acuminate bracts, rachis 8" [to 20 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with pubescent, linear, acute, shorter to longer than the flower floral bracts.
Similar to Pelexia adnata, but P novofriburggensis has shorter petiolate base leaves, a rather densely many flowered inflorescence and somewhat larger flowers.
From the disjunct combination of synonomous descriptions for this species [P calophylla, P hypnophila & P novofriburgensis], I can maintain that the species must be variable in leaf coloration, stem coloration, bract coloration and length plus flower coloration. I have to date not found a publication that ties them together and by what morphological means unite them.
Synonyms Pelexia calophylla (Porsch) Schltr. 1920; Pelexia hypnophila (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1920; Sarcoglottis novofriburgensis (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1920; Spiranthes hypnophila Barb.Rodr. 1877; Spiranthes novofriburgensis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1866; Stenorrhynchos calophyllum Porsch 1905; Stenorrhynchos hypnophilum (Barb.Rodr.) Barb.Rodr. 1877; *Stenorrhynchos novofriburgensis Rchb. f. 1850
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Linnaea 22: 815 Rchb.f 1850 as Stenorrhynchos novofriburgensis
Bot. Ergebn.: 148 Rchb.f 1866 as Spiranthes novofriburgensis
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 187 Barb Rodr. 1877 as Spiranthes hypnophila
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1(Index): x Barb Rodr. 1877 as Stenorrhynchos hypnophilum
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys novifriburgensis sic
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 168 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos hypnophilum
Fl. Bras. 3(4): Tab 37 Cogniaux 1895 as Stenorrhynchos hypnophilum drawing fide
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 1905: 151 Porsch 1905 as Stenorrhynchos calophyllum
Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 418 Schlechter 1920 as Sarcoglottis novofriburgensis
Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 408 Schlechter 1920 as Pelexia calophylla
Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 409 Schlechter 1920 as Pelexia hypnophila
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 247 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as P hynophila;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: Tab 131 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as P hynophila drawing fide;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 334 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945 as Sarcoglottis novofriburgensis ;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as P hypnophila photo fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: 281 #453 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P hypnophila drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing okish;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 28: 344 Garay 1981 publ. 1982
Lankesteriana 19(3): 206 2019 as Stenorrhynchos novofriburgensis drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 347 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 348 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 Drawing fide
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