
Prescottia phleoides Lindl. 1840
photo by © L. Menini Neto and The Flora da Serra Negra, Minas Gerais Website
Drawing by © Hoehne
Collection Sheet by © Singer and Kew's {Plants of the World Website
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Common Name?
Flower Size
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in fields as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with rosulate, basal, erect, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, acute, longly attenuate into the pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION I am not convinced that this photo determination is correct, but it is consistent with 2 botanical institutions within Brazil, so I must go along. The only reference [Hoehne's drawing] that I have is positively not this species so I await better references.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 453 Lindley 1840
Flora Brasilensis Vol 3 Part 4: 264 Cogniaux 1893
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43: 102 Hoehne 1945;
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II 13-43 tab 66 fig I Illustrations Hoehne 1945 drawing not!!;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
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