Pelexia quisqueyana Dod 1993 SECTION Pelexia

TYPE Drawing by Donald Dod

LATER

Common Name The Quisqueya Pelexia [refers to its being from Hispanola]

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in a clearing beside a broadleaved forest at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect rhizome carrying 1 to 3, somewhat sulcate, plicate, oblique, dull, undulate margins, thin, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an erect, terminal, glabrous below, glandulous-pilose above, peduncle 11.6 to 22" [29 to 55 cm] long, provided with ovate-triangular, acute, reflexed apex sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4 to 6" [6 to 15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with pilose, narrowly lanceolate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pilose to puberulent, green flowers.

"Similar to Pelexia adnata but differs in the sheaths, the bracts, the pilose outside of the flower and the shorter lip with distinct auricles and the tripartite spur." Dod 1993

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Moscosoa 7: 160 Dod 1993 drawing fide;

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