Pelexia popowiana (Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach.) J.M.H.Shaw 2014 SECTION Pachygenuim

TYPE Drawing by © J Mytnik-Ejsmont and Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 6 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

Common Name Popow's Pelexia [German Orchid Collector current]

Flower Size

Found in Parana state of Brazil as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with 3, on the basal part of the stem, lanceolate, acute, 3.6" [9 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, stout, peduncle 29.4" [78.5 cm] long, slightly glandular just below the inflorescence denser above, provided with 6, acute, herbaceous, thin, adnate to the stem, glabropus sheathing bracts, rachis 4.2" [10.5 cm] long, multilateral, dense, 22 to 25 flowered inflorescence carrying pedicellate, densely glandular flowers.

Related to Pelexia ventricosa but the lip of P Popowiana is obscurely divided into the hypochile and the epichile and the nerve endings are thickened and darker than the rest of the lip. The auricles of thelip are small and furnished with darker, fleshier oblong thickenings." Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

Synonyms Pachygenium popowianum Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orchid Rev. 122: 76 J M H Shaw 2014

Biodivers. Res. Conservation 11-12: 6 Mytnik, Rutk. & Szlach. 2008 as Pachygenium popowianum

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