IOSPE PHOTOS

Pelexia parva (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Pachygenium

Drawing by Š Pabst

Flower TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos parva

Plant TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos parva TYPE Drawing of Stenorrhynchos parva by Š Cogniaux

Common Name The Small Pelexia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil at elevations below 600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of a few, erect, narrowly broadly lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate, long attenuate into the distinctly petiolate base leaves that is leafless at blooming occuring in the fall on an erect to subnutant, terminal, very slender, peduncle 4.6 to 5.2" [11.5 to 13 cm] long, provided with a few, glabrous below, densely short, glandular-pilose above, sheathing bracts, rachis .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, densely 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate, sparsely pilose, slightly shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying shortly pedicellate, medium sized flowers.

"This species is best compared to Pelexia orobanchoides but P parva has longer, less incurved flowers in a short, few flowered racemethe whole plant is less than a hand high. The sepal sac is rather large, incurved towards the tip and blunt. The labia is gradually widening from a narrow base, obovate-elliptic towarsd the front with a not sharply demarcated triangular, blunt anterior lobe." Schlechter 1920

Synonyms Pachygenium parvum (Cogn.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001; *Stenorrhynchos parvum Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Fl. Bras. 3(6): 537 Cogniaux 1906 as Stenorrhynchos parvum

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 404 Schlechter 1920

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 238 Hoehne 1945

Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: Tab 125 Fig 1 Hoehne 1945 drawing fide;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1: 281 #448 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

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

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