Pelexia olivacea Rolfe 1890
Photo by © Alejandro Calderon and his Native Colombian Orchid Website
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Olive Green Pelexia
Flower Size .05" [1 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane forests as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that are present as it blooms on a terminal erect, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped by many squamulose sheaths and lanceolate, acuminate, as long or somewhat longer than the ovaries floral bracts.
Synonyms Centrogenium olivaceum (Rolfe) Schltr. 1920; Pelexia funckiana var. olivacea (Rolfe) C.Nelson 2008; Pelexia lehmanniana Kraenzl. 1899; Pelexia wendlandiana Kraenzl.1892; Spiranthes funckiana var. olivacea (Rolfe) Ames & Correll 1942; Spiranthes wendlandiana (Kraenzl.) Garay 1956
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Spiranthes funckiana var. olivacea does not seem to de right; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 199 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 8 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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