Prescottia nivalis Barb.Rodr.1882 Photo by © Felipe Braz Nielsen Koeptcke © and his Wikimedia website

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

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Common Name The Snow White Prescottia

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Rio de Janiero state of Brazil as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with hairy roots giving rise to a basal rosette of 5 or so, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, pseudo-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on a terminal, erect, many flowered inflorescence with ovoid-oblong, acute, slightly shorter than the ovary floral bracts

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

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