Pelexia weberbaueri (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1920 SECTION Glottisarcon
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Drawing by © Dunterville & Garay
Drawing of Glottisarcon weberbaueriana
Drawing by © A Maciagowska and Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Common Name Weberbauer's Pelexia [German Botanist in Peru early 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Tachira state of Venezuela, Antioquia, Cesar, Santander and Cundinamarca, departments of Colombia, Bolivar and Napo provinces of Ecuador, and Peru in paramo and dense forests and relict forests at elevations of 2300 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of 2 to 5, elliptic, obtuse, elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, racemose, peduncle 6.8 to 30.8" [17 to 77 cm] long, glabrous below, glandular-pilose above, enveloped by 5 to 9 sheathing bracts, rachis to 5.2 to 9.2" [13 to 23 cm] long, lax below and denser above, 25 to 45 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate, shorter than to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying densely pubescent flowers.
"Easily separated from all others in the genus by the fleshy lip obscurely constricted just below the apex." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Glottisarcon weberbaueri (Kraenzl.) Szlach. & Kolan. 2019; *Spiranthes weberbaueri Kraenzl. 1916
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 117: 18 Kraenzlin 1916 as Spiranthes weberbaueri
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 37: 411 Schlechter 1920
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as Spiranthes weberbaueri drawing good;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as Spiranthes weberbaueri drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 317 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Glottisarcon weberbaueri
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 318-9 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 as Glottisarcon weberbaueri Drawing fide
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