Prescottia polyphylla Porsch 1905
Drawing by © Pabst
Common Name The Many Leaved Prescottia
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janiero states of Brazil at elevations around 100 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing terrestrial or rarely an epiphyte with fasiculate, fleshy, long vilous roots giving rise to rosulate,, basal, green, herbaceous, somewhat shiny, membraneous, , elliptic-ovate, to elliptic-lamceolate, acute, attenuate below into the canaliculate pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, peduncle sparsely enveloped by lanceolate, acuminate, 3.2 to 8" [8 to 20 cm] long overall, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acumiante, a bit longer to as long as the ovary floral bracts.
Similar to Prescottia lancifolia but differs in the larger flowers, the denser inflorescence and the shorter ovary.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 153 Porsch 1905
Kaiserl. Akad. Mathem. naturw.", de Viena, vol. LXXIX p. 101 Kraenzlin 1908
Kaiserl. Akad. Mathem. naturw.", de Viena, vol. LXXIX táb. 15, fig. 8 e 9 Kraenzlin 1908 drawing fide
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: 110 Hoehne 1945
Flora Brasilica Vol XII II: tab 74 fig 1 Hoehne 1945
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
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