Prescottia octopollinica Barb. Rodr. 1881

Inflorescence

Plant Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

Common Name or Meaning The Eight Pollina Prescottia

Flower Size 1/4"

Found in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium szied, cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid with 3 dark green, faintly veined, oval, acute alternate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, thin, green, erect, spicate, to 32" [80 cm] long, to 80 flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in the upper third of the stem.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;