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Orchid Species: Prescottia gigantea

Kew currently accepted name is Prescottia stachyodes

Prescottia gigantea is an orchid species identified by Lodd. ex W.H.Baxter in J.C.Loudon in 1850. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Prescottia stachyodes.
Genus
Prescottia (Pct.)
Grex
gigantea
Parents
Species
Author
Lodd. ex W.H.Baxter in J.C.Loudon
Year
1850
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ORIGIN: Found in the Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Windwards, Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina as a small to medium sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in wet lowland forests, wet montane forests and cloud forests at elevations of 10 to 3800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A small to medium sized, hot to cold growing terrestrial in wet lowland forests, wet montane forests and cloud forests at elevations of 10 to 3800 meters with 2 to 3 broadly elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate to the narrow channeled petiole, acuminate, sharply pointed at the apex leaves that blooms on an erect, densly many flowered racemose inflorescence concealed by sub-inflated, tubular, acuminate bracts with clasping, concave floral bractsand carrying non-resupinate flowers held in a spiral around the rhachis occurring in nature in the fall.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Prescottia Pct cordifolia 1855 Rchb.f.
Add+ Prescottia Pct pellucida 1858 Lindl.
Add+ Prescottia Pct petiolaris 1836 Lindl.
Add+ Prescottia Pct stachyodes 1836 (Sw.) Lindl.
Add+ Prescottia Pct tepuyensis 1996 Carnevali & C.A.Vargas
Add+ Prescottia Pct villenarum 2002 Christenson
Add+ Prescottia Pct longifolia 1920 Schltr.
Add+ Prescottia Pct colorans 1836 Lindl.
Add+ Prescottia Pct galeottii 1846 Rchb.f.
Add+ Prescottia Pct longipetiolata 1921 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Prescottia Pct paulensis 1906 Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Prescottia Pct schlechteri 1945 Hoehne
Add+ Prescottia Pct smithii 1920 Schltr.
Add+ Cranichis Cran stachyodes 1788 Sw.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pct. stachyodes 'Melly' (2013) Pct. stachyodes 'Esmeralda' (2012) Pct. stachyodes 'Don Oscar' (1997)
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