Prescottia glazioviana Cogn. 1895
Drawing by © Carla Lima and Clarification on the circumscription of Prescottia glazioviana (Cranichidinae, Orchidaceae) Phytotaxa 57: 25 fig 1 DE AZEVEDO, DE SOUZA LEONI & VAN DEN BERG 2012
Kew's Plants of the World Website
Common Name Glaziou's Prescotia [French Gardener, director of Rio Public Gardens later 1800's]
Flower Size small
Found in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil in high grasslands at elevations of 1,700 and 2,400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with 1 to 2, radical, erect, elliptic to oblong, deep green, finely nerved venation, acute, attenuate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 8.8 to 11.2" [22 to 28 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3 adpressed, amplexicaul, pale green sheathing bracts, rachis 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long, slightly sinuous, cylindrical, laxly few flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, small, erect-patula, greenish flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fl. Bras. 3(4): 261 Cogniaux 1895
Flora Brasilica Fascile 8 Vol XII II: 101 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Illustrations Fascile 8 Vol XII II: tab 65 Hoehne 1945 Drawing good;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257 - 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 photo ok plant only;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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