Pelexia ovatifolia M.N.Correa 1953 SECTION Pachygenium

TYPE Drawing by © M N Correa

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Ovate Leafed Pelexia

Flower Size

Found in Salta department of Argentina in forests as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with 4 to 5, basal, in a rosette, wide, ovate-lanceolate, curved nerved leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, peduncle 8 to 8.8" [20 to 22 cm] long, provided with lanceolate, acute, shortly ciliate sheathing bracts, rachis 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, pubescent, laxly many flowered inflorescence with thin, acute, shorter than the flower floral bracts and carrying horizontally positioned, shortly pedicelate flowers.

"Separated from others by the shape of the leaves, the lack of a pseudopetiolate base, by its thin, guitar-shaped lip and by its much narrower rostellum." M N Correa 1953

Synonyms Pachygenium ovatifolium (M.N.Correa) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Darwiniana 10: 162 M N Correa 1953 Darwiniana 10: 162 M N Correa 1953 drawing fide

Polish Bot. J. 46: 5 Szlach R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium ovatifolium

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