Prescottia carnosa C.Schweinf. 1951
TYPE Drawing by © C Schweinfurth 1951
Drawing by © Foldats
Common Name The Fleshy Prescottia
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela and Guyana in swamps, ravines with open forests at elevations around 2200 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with fasciculate, densely wooly, tuberous roots giving rise to about 3, basal, coriaceous, intensely green above, silvery beneath, the central rib and petiole red-rose, ovate, acuet, erose-crenulate margins in dried specimens, abruptly rounded below into the deeply sulcate, long petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, glabrous, peduncle to 16" [40 cm] long, red-rose, enveloped by 11 to 13, shortly acuminate, the lowermost imbricate, coriaceous, the central group scarious, larger and more distant, the apical group scarious and very short bracts, rachis 3.4 to 4.8" [8.5 to 12 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with ovate, long acuminate, scarious, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, very small, tawny yellow to salmon colored, externally sparsely pubescent flowers.
"This species is remarkable for its small, coriaceous, ovate leaves amnd for the median keel or septum in the center of the fleshy lip. It appears to be somewhat allied to Prescottia stachyodes but it has larger membraneous leaves and an ecarinate, membraneous lip." C Scheinfurth 1951
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Fieldiana, Bot. 28(1): 173 C Schweinfurth 1951
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 primera parte Foldats 1969 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 96 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 97 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
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