Prescottia montana Barb.Rodr.1877
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Common Name The Montane Prescottia
Flower Size .25" [.625 cm]
Found in Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo states of Brazil and Jujuy department of Argentina at elevations around 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a short stem enveloped by 1 to 2 leafless, basal sheaths carrying above, a single apical, intense green, fleshy-rigid, oblong, acute, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and earlier fall on a terminal, erect, peduncle 16 to 28" [40 to 70 cm] long, carrying 3, tubular, acute bracts, rachis 1.6 to 4.4" [4 to 11 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, pale, slightly concave, 2 to 3 times longer than the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Prescottia serrana M.N.Correa 1988 contrary to Art. 37.4 ICBN (1988)
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 178 Barb Rodr 1877
Flora Brasilensis Vol 3 Pt 4: 259 Cogniaux 1893
Flora Brasilensis Vol 3 Pt 4: Tab 62 fig 1 Cogniaux 1893
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 102 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 65 Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Parodiana 7: 6 M N Correa 1992 as P serrana
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 as P serrana
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