Pelexia olivacea Rolfe 1890 SECTION Centropelexia Schltr.
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.
Characterized by its long, upcurved spur.
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 ;
*Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1890: 200 Rolfe 1890
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 11: 426 Kraenzlin 1892 as Pelexia wendlandiana
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 500 Kraenzlin 1899 as Pelexia lehmanniana
Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 453 Schlechter 1920 as Centrogenium olivaceum
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 66 Ames & Correll 1942 as Spiranthes funckiana var. olivacea
Canad. J. Bot. 34: 294 Garay 1956 as Spiranthes wendlandiana
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;
Cat. Pl. Vasc. Honduras: 840 C Nelson 2008 as Pelexia funckiana var. olivacea
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #9: 691 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 8: 586 2017 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 329 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 330 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drrawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: Plate 141 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 photo not = P congesta
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