Pelexia adnata(Sw.) Poit. ex Rich.

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WFO wfo-0000266542 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pelexia adnata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. a Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / 2005-04-05 / obs. 99235741
Pelexia adnata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99235630
Pelexia adnata, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99235801

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Pelexia adnata is native: Florida, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Windward Is. FloridaMexico NortheastMexico SouthwestBelizeColombiaCubaDominican RepublicGuatemalaHondurasJamaicaPuerto RicoVenezuela BahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Pelexia adnata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Colombia CLM
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Guatemala GUA
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE
Venezuela VEN
Windward Is. WIN
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southwest MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 30 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 13.5 °C 14.1 °C 21.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.0 °C 31.6 °C 32.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,284 mm 1,510 mm 2,231 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 134 mm 137 mm 272 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 30 research-grade observations of Pelexia adnata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adnula petiolaris Raf.
  • Collea adnata (Sw.) Lindl.
  • Neottia adnaria Raf.
  • Neottia adnata (Sw.) Sw.
  • Pelexia adnata Spreng.
  • Pelexia spiranthoides Lindl.
  • Pelexia stenorrhynchoides Griseb.
  • Satyrium adnatum Sw.
  • Spiranthes adnata (Sw.) León
  • Spiranthes adnata (Sw.) León
  • Spiranthes stenorrhynchoides (Griseb.) León

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.