Prescottia lojana Dodson 1996
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Loja Prescottia [A province of southern Ecuador]
Flower Size small
Found in Bolivar state of Venezuela, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Riaralda and Huila departments of Colombia and Loja province of Ecuador at elevations of 1900 to 3400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal rosette of stiffly erect, fleshy, hyaline-white, denticulate margined, ovate, acute, rounded to cordate below into the channeled, petiolate 4" [10 cm] long, base leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, several sheathed, decreasing in size above, red, cylindric, loosely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying fleshy, dark green flowers.
"This species reasembles Prescottia cordifolia but can be distinguished buy the presence of several coriaceous, leaves that are very dark green and have a hyaline white, denticulate margin, red stems and dark green flowers." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Orquideología 20(1): 108. Dodson 1996 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 98 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol 2: 99 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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