Prescottia stachyodes (Sw.) Lindl.

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Orchidaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Prescottia stachyodes (Sw.) Lindl.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Terrestrial, glabrous herb of variable size, often >50 cm tall; roots numerous, fasciculate, fleshy, 3-7 mm thick. Leaves green to dark purplish green, basal, 1-4, slightly fleshy, erect-spreading; blades 8-15 x 4-7 cm, elliptic, acute to acuminate, entire to denticulate; petioles erect, 2.5-15 cm long. Flowers greenish white to greenish brown, in dense, erect spikes 4-16 cm long on scapes 25-50 cm tall; floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, to 12 mm long. Sepals basally connate, reflexed-curled; dorsal sepal linear-lanceolate, 2.5 x 0.5 mm; lateral sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3 x 1.7 mm; petals adnate to the sepaline tube, filiform, reflexed-curled, ca. 2 x 0.3 mm; lip green, pink, or strawcolored, basally auriculate, adnate to sepaline tube, 2.5-3.5 mm long, very thick and fleshy, ovate and deeply concave, forming a cavity around the short column; column basally adnate to sepaline tube, minute, 1.7 mm long; ovary subsessile, 4-6 mm long. Capsule erect, ellipsoidal, 6-8 mm long.

    Distribution and Ecology - Terrestrial in moist forests and thickets. Bordeaux (B559, A2604). Also reported from the Greater Antilles and Mexico to South America.