Prescottia villenarum Christenson 2002
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 ascendig rhizome carrying a few, elliptic, long-petiolate, variegated, dark green with finefive silver green longitudinal stripes, glossy, rigid, crenulate and minutely undulate margins, obtuse 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
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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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