Prescottia villenarum Christenson 2002
TYPE Photos by © Dr Eric Christenson PhD
Photos by © David Hunt
Common Name or Meaning Villena's Prescottia [Peruvian Orchid Nurseymen current]
Flower Size .2" [2.5 mm]
Found in Peru near Moyobamba as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an ascending rhizome carrying a few, elliptic, long-petiolate, variegated, dark green with five fine, silver green, longitudinal stripes, glossy, rigid, crenulate and minutely undulate margins, obtuse, long petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, racemose, to 20" [to 50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers
The top two photos by Eric Christenson are absolutely correct as they were included in the type description by Dr Christenson. Most likely Kew is correct in putting this as a synonym of Prescottia stachyodes but Eric mentions that there was a population of 50 plants that consistently produced varigated leaves which is a unique characteristic within the genus Prescottia. Other than this population in Amazonas department of Peru no other varigated leaved specimens have been found where Prescottia occur to the best of my knowledge.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 7 2002 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide;
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