Prescottia densiflora (Brongn.) Lindl. 1841 Photo by © Marcelo Pedron © and his Flickr Orchid Photo website

Drawing Drawing by © von Martius, Eichler, Urban © and Wikimedia website

Common Name The Snow White Prescottia

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Brazil as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with rosulate, cuneate-oblong, smaller above, somewhat glaucous leaves that blooms in the spring on a glabrous, erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with a few distant bracts and ovate, acuminate to triangular, three nerved, as long as the ovaries floral bracts.

Synonyms Decaisnea densiflora Brongn. 1829; Prescottia pubescens Barb.Rodr. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Illustrations Hoehne 1945 as P pubescens drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 as P pubescens; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;

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