Pelexia orobanchoides (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenuim
Photographs by Joăo Aguiar Nogueira Batista and Lankesteriana 23(1): 98 Rinc.-González, Fonseca-Cortés & Salazar 2023
Photo by © D Zappii and Kew Neotropical Plants Image Database Photo Website
TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos orobanchoides by © Kraenzlin
Photographs by Joăo Aguiar Nogueira Batista (A), Francisco Tobar (B), and Andrés Fonseca-Cortés (C). Plate preparation: Andrés Fonseca-Cortés and Lankesteriana 23(1): 98 Rinc.-González, Fonseca-Cortés & Salazar 2023
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Common Name The Orobanche-Like Pelexia [refers to the plant resembling a plant from the genus Orobanche]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Parana and Sao Paulo states of Brazil as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial orchid with basally rosulate, petiolate (2.4" [6 cm]) long, base leaves that are not present at blooming occurring in the later spring on a terminal, erect, peduncle 5.4 to 17.4" [13.5 to 43.5 cm] long, provided with 5 to 9, narrow, acute, herbaceous, more or less imbricating shething bracts, rachis 1.8 to 3.4" [4.5 to 8.5 cm] long, 5 to 35 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, margins ciliate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
The closest related species is Pelexia hysterantha but it is large, slender and few flowered and with different details of the larger flowers.
Synonyms Pachygenium orobanchoides (Kraenzl.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001; *Stenorrhynchos orobanchoides Kraenzl. 1911;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): 24 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos orobanchoides
Kongl. Svenska Vetensk. Acad. Handl., n.f., 46(10): Tab 5 Fig 3 Kraenzlin 1911 as Stenorrhynchos orobanchoides
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 404 Schlechter 1920
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 231 Orchidaceae Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XII II 13-43: 231 Orchidaceae Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing ok.;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: 289 #431 Pabst & Dungs 1975
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: tab 121 Fig 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; drawing fide;
Polish Bot. J. 46: 5 2001 as Pachygenium orobanchoides
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 325 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 326 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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