Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Pelexia adnata Sacoila lanceolata var. lanceolata Schiedeella arizonica	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi

Herbs, perennial, terrestrial. Roots tuberous, fleshy. Stems erect, with slender sheaths. Leaves senescing before or at anthesis, petiolate; blade broadly elliptic. Inflorescences spikes, few–many-flowered, in spiral or sloping downward from center in all directions. Flowers resupinate; sepals similar, connivent; dorsal sepal adnate to back of column, concave; lateral sepals adnate to column-foot; petals linear; lip with distinct claw, central cinnabar-red disc, and 3 green stripes near apex; column slender, widened toward apex, with decurrent foot at base; stigmas 2, confluent; rostellum linear-triangular, apex acuminate; anther ovate-cordate; pollinia clavate, viscidium oblong, short; ovary cyclindric. Fruits capsules.

Distribution

Montane tropical regions, Western Hemisphere

Discussion

Species 9 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Schiedeella arizonica