Prescottia congesta Pupulin 2021

TYPE Drawing by Franco Pupulin

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Congested Prescottia

Flower Size .24 x .32" [6 x 8 mm]

Found in Costa Rica on the Caribbean slope of the Guanacaste Cordillera at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 4, basal, subcoriaceous, spreading, elliptic to broadly lanceolate, acute, dark green, matte adaxially, suffused with greenish brown, beneath, main veins clearly visible abaxially, margins provided with low, elliptic, convex, papillae, narrowing below into a cuneate, channeled, elongate, greenish brown, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, enveloped by lanceolate, acute, loose, reddish brown, striped brown, to 12' [30 cm] long, rachis to 1.6" [4 cm] long, congested-subcapitulate, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute to acuminate, rose purple, the branched veins brown, the margins hyaline, undulate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying erect, non-resupinate, membraneous, fragrant flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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