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; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P longifolia; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as P smithiiNative Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; 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; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 364 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 2 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 As P colorans; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as P petiolaris; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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