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|accepted_name=Prescottia
|accepted_authority=Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. J. Hooker, Exotic Fl.
|place=2: plate 115. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Prescottiinae;Prescottia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Prescottiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prescottia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For John Prescott (d. 1837), a British botanist resident in Russia who traveled widely in northern Asia
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 498
|treatment_page=page 519
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial. <b>Roots</b> fasciculate, fibrous or thick and fleshy, villous. <b>Stems</b>: rhizomes sometimes branched. <b>Leaves</b> basal, petiolate or sessile, not articulate, membranous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, many-flowered spikes; peduncles partially covered by sheathing bracts. <b>Flowers</b> not resupinate, sessile; sepals spreading or reflexed, rarely distinct, basally connate forming short cup, thin; petals adnate to column and sepal cup, narrow, thin; lip distalmost in flower, attached to column foot, clawed, often basally auriculate distal to claw, deeply concave, often enclosing column, very fleshy; column and foot adnate to sepal cup when present, minute, column blunt; anther abaxial, erect; pollinia 4, slightly flattened, soft, mealy; caudicles absent; stigmas entire. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, ovoid to ellipsoid.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 24 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Originally the name was spelled as “Prescotia.” Since then and until recently, most authors, with the exception of W. Voth (1976) and J. D. Ackerman (1989), spelled it with two ts. “Prescotia” should be treated as an orthographic error (J. D. Ackerman 1995), and the spelling with two ts should prevail</p>
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name=Prescottia
|author=James D. Ackerman
|authority=Lindley
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. J. Hooker, Exotic Fl.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Prescottiinae
|genus=Prescottia
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