Prescottia stachyodes (Sw.) Lindl. 1836

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Christian Gegenbauer

Peruvian species Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

Plant in situ La Caraça, Minas Gerais elevation 1100 to 1300 meters

Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Spike-Like Prescotia

Flower Size 1/4" [5 mm]

Found in the Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina as a small to medium sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in wet lowland forests, wet montane forests and cloud forests at elevations of 10 to 3800 meters with 2 to 3 broadly elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate to the narrow channeled petiole, acuminate, sharply pointed at the apex leaves that blooms on an erect, densly many flowered racemose inflorescence concealed by sub-inflated, tubular, acuminate bracts with clasping, concave floral bracts with the flowers in a spiral around the rhachis occuring in nature in the fall

Synonyms *Cranichis stachyodes Sw. 1788; Prescottia colorans Lindl.1836; Prescottia gigantea Lodd. ex W.Baxter 1850; Prescottia longifolia Schltr. 1920; Prescottia longipetiolata Barb. Rodr. 1877; Prescottia paulensis Cogn. 1906; Prescottia petiolaris Lindl.1836; Prescottia smithii Schltr. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P longifolia; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P smithii; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Die Orchideen #5 17-20 tafel 6 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as P colorans drawing; Die Orchideen #5 17-20 tafel 6 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1141 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 364 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide; An Orchid Flora of Peurto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 As P colorans photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 as P petiolaris photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo ok; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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