Prescottia cordifolia Rchb. f. 1855
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Fritz Hamer
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name The Heart Shaped Leaf Prescottia
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Cuba, Guatemala, Santa Ana and La Libertad departments of El Salvador, Nicaragua, Antioquia, Risaralda, Norte de Santander, Boyaca, Caqueta and Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Carchi, Imbabura, Tungurahua, Cañar, and Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador in tall evergreen forests on steep slopes at elevations around 200 to 2700 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial with thick, fleshy, elongate roots, carrying a single basal, coriaceous, green tinged with purple, cordate, acute, long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, to 2' [60 cm] long, peduncle provided with several, decreasing in size upwards, sheathing bracts, rachis 4" [10 cm] long, green racemose, cylindric, loosely to densely many flowered, inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as to shorter than the flowers floral bracts and carrying many, inconspicuous, fleshy, green flowers.
This species is similar to Prescottia stachyodes but is distinguished by the [generally single] large, cordate leaf and by the small, green flowers, instead of purple.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 66 Rchb.f 1855;
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing ok;
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 210 Hamer 1981
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: 211 Hamer 1981 drawing
Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3: Lamina 16 Hamer 1981 photo ok;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1140 Dodson 1984 drawing ok;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 100 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 101 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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