Pelexia sheviakii Szlach. 1995 SECTION Pachygenuim

TYPE Drawing by © Szlachetko 1995

Common Name Sheviak's Pelexia [collector of the type]

Flower Size

Found in Morocho province of Ecuador in grasslands with volcanic organic soils at elevations around 3150 meters as a small to just medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with unknown leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, stout, peduncle 8.4 to 9.6" [21 to 24 cm] long, glandular above the base or below the rachis, provided with 6, narrow, acute, herbaceous, the upper ones sparsely glandular at the base sheathing bracts, rachis 2.2 to 4" [5.5 to 10 cm] long, dense to very densely 15 to 35 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, longer than the ovary floral bracts carrying relatively large, densely glandular externally, green flowers with a yellow center.

"Easily separable from others in northern South America by the lip form, which is not constricted and has a lamina more or less rhombic in outline." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019

Synonyms Pachygenium sheviakii (Szlach.) Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Nordic J. Bot. 15: 173 Szlach 1995

Polish Bot. J. 46: 6 Szlach., R.González & Rutk. 2001 as Pachygenium sheviakii

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 323 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Pachygenium sheviakii drawing fide

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