Prescottia leptostachya Lindl. 1836 Drawing by © Franca and The Scielo Website

Common Name The Thin Inflorescence Prescottia

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Bahia and Rio de Janierostates of Brazil as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a single, radical, large, erect, oblong, 5 to 7 veined, reticulate venation between, wit ha thick midrib, acute, attenuate below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect, thin, peduncle 16 to 20" [40 to 50 cm] long, sparsely provided with acuminate sheathing bracts, rachis 2.8 to 6.8" [7 to 17 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, pale, thinly membraneous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, erect to erect-patent, yellowish green flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 22: t. 1916 Lindley 1836

Flora Brasilensis V 3 pt 4: 260 Cogniaux 1895

Flora Brasilica Fascile 8 Vol XII II: 104 Hoehne 1945;

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