Prescottia (plant) explained

Prescottia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is widespread across much of Latin America and the West Indies, with one species (P. oligantha) extending into Florida.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The name is sometimes misspelled as Prescotia, including in the original generic description.^[5] The genus was named for John Prescott, so is to be spelled with a double t per ICN.^[6]

Species accepted as of June 2014:^[1]

1. Prescottia auyantepuiensis Carnevali & G.A.Romero in G.A.Romero & G.Carnevali - Venezuela
2. Prescottia carnosa C.Schweinf. - Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana
3. Prescottia cordifolia Rchb.f. - Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Ecuador
4. Prescottia densiflora (Brongn.) Lindl. - Brazil, Uruguay
5. Prescottia ecuadorensis C.O.Azevedo & Van den Berg - Ecuador
6. Prescottia epiphyta Barb.Rodr. - Brazil
7. Prescottia glazioviana Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius - Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro
8. Prescottia lancifolia Lindl. - Brazil
9. Prescottia leptostachya Lindl. - Brazil
10. Prescottia lojana Dodson - Ecuador
11. Prescottia microrhiza Barb.Rodr. - Brazil, Paraguay
12. Prescottia montana Barb.Rodr. - Brazil
13. Prescottia mucugensis C.O.Azevedo & Van den Berg - Bahia
14. Prescottia octopollinica Barb.Rodr. - Rio de Janeiro
15. Prescottia oligantha (Sw.) Lindl. - widespread from Mexico and Florida though Central America, the West Indies and South America
16. Prescottia ostenii Pabst - Rio Grande do Sul, Uruguay
17. Prescottia petiolaris Lindl. - Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
18. Prescottia phleoides Lindl. - Minas Gerais
19. Prescottia plantaginea Lindl. in W.J.Hooker - Brazil
20. Prescottia polyphylla Porsch - São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro
21. Prescottia rodeiensis Barb.Rodr. - Rio de Janeiro
22. Prescottia stachyodes (Sw.) Lindl - widespread in Mexico, the West Indies, Central America, and much of South America
23. Prescottia stricta Schltr. - Minas Gerais
24. Prescottia tepuyensis Carnevali & C.A.Vargas - Venezuela
25. Prescottia villenarum Christenson - Peru

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=165211 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101865 Flora of North America, v 26 p 520, Prescottia oligantha (Swartz) Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 454. 1840.
3. Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3: 1-358. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
4. Azevedo, C. & van den Berg, C. (2007). Lectotypifications in Prescottia (Orchidaceae-Orchidoideae). Kew Bulletin 62: 651-655.
5. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35031367#page/111/mode/1up Lindley, John in Hooker, William Jackson. 1824. Exotic Flora 2: at plate 115
6. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=126700 Flora of North America, v 26 p 519, Prescottia Lindley, Exotic Fl. 2: plate 115. 1824 (as Prescotia).