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Pelexia

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Pelexia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has about 60-70 accepted species, native to Latin America, the West Indies and Florida.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderAsparagales
  5. FamilyOrchidaceae
Observations recorded3,883

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
355
With media
119
Family
Orchidaceae
Collections
IBUNAM, UNICACH, IIB-UV, DERN-IMECBIO-CUCSUR-UDG, SEL, F
Recorded in
Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Perú, Paraguay, Jamaica

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Spiranthinae
Image
Pelexia laxa - Flickr 003.jpg
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肥根兰属
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Category:Pelexia
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Encyclopedic overview

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Pelexia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has about 60-70 accepted species, native to Latin America, the West Indies and Florida.

== See also == List of Orchidaceae genera

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelexia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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