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The genus Pelexia is in the family Orchidaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Pelexia

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Pelexia adnata (Sw.) Poit. ex Rich.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia albicans (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia arrabidae (Rchb.f.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia asinus Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia bonariensis (Lindl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia bradei Schltr. ex Mansf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia burgeri Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia caespitosa Lindl.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Pelexia callifera (C.Schweinf.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia caucae Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia collocaliae Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia comosa (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia congesta Ames & C.Schweinf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia cuculligera (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia cundinamarcae Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia decora (Garay) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia delicatula Szlach. & Veyret	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ecuadorensis Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ekmanii (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia fiebrigii Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia funckiana (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ghiesbreghtii Szlach., Mytnik & Rutk.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia goninensis (Pulle) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia goyazensis (Cogn.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia gracilis Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia gutturosa (Rchb.f.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia hamata Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia hirta (Lindl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia huntii Christenson	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia hysterantha (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia incurvidens Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia itatiayae Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia laminata Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia laxa (Poepp. & Endl.) Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia leucosticta (Rchb.f.) Garay & Dunst.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia lindmanii Kraenzl.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia loefgrenii (Porsch) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia longibracteata Pabst	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia luetzelburgii Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia macropoda (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia mandonii (Rchb.f.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia mattogrossensis (Hoehne) Hoehne	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia matucanensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia maxonii Ames	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia minarum (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia mouraei Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia neottiorhiza (Kraenzl.) Pabst	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia novofriburgensis (Rchb.f.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia obliqua (J.J.Sm.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ochyrae Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia oestrifera (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia olivacea Rolfe	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia orobanchoides (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia orthosepala (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ovatifolia M.N.Correa	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia palmorchidis Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia paludosa M.N.Correa	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia parva (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia pavonii (Rchb.f.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia phallocallosa R.J.V.Alves	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia polyantha Schltr. ex Mansf.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia pterygantha (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia quisqueyana Dod	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia robusta (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia sancta (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Garay	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia sceptrum Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia sheviakii Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia sinuosa Szlach.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia stenantha (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia tamanduensis (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia tenuior Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia tovarensis (Garay & Dunst.) Garay & Dunst.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia trachyglossa (Kraenzl.) Pabst	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia vaginata Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia ventricosa (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia viridis (Cogn.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia weberbaueri (Kraenzl.) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Pelexia weberbaueriana (Kraenzl. ex Schltr.) Schltr.	Accepted		TRO	2012-04-18
Pelexia yungasensis (Rolfe) Schltr.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 249 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Pelexia. Of these 78 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 8 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Pelexia. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 249 species names for the genus Pelexia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	31.3%
◕	Synonym	170	68.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.4%

All names

The status of the 257 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Pelexia recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	78	30.4%
◕	Synonym	178	69.3%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	1	0.4%

Of the species names,

• 3 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 249 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Pelexia, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	77	157	0	0	234	94.0%
	Medium confidence	1	13	0	0	14	5.6%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	1	1	0.4%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Pelexia is as follows: