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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Prescottia oligantha
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|place=454. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Cranichis oligantha
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=120. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cranichis micrantha
|authority=Sprengel
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prescottia gracilis
|authority=Schlechter
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prescottia myosurus
|authority=Reichenbach ex Grisebach
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Prescottia panamensis
|authority=Schlechter
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Prescottiinae;Prescottia;Prescottia oligantha
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prescottia oligantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 517
|treatment_page=page 520
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 40 cm, glabrous (except roots). <b>Roots</b> fasciculate, fingerlike, 3–8 mm diam., fleshy. <b>Leaves</b> 2–4; petiole 1–3 cm; blade elliptic to suborbiculate, 1.5–8 × 0.8–3 cm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex acute to rounded. <b>Inflorescences</b> slender; scape 12–31 cm, partially covered by sheathing bracts; spike to 17 cm, densely many-flowered; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate, clasping base of ovary, 1.5–4 mm, apex acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> minute, glabrous; sepals reflexed-spreading, pinkish, 1-veined, 1–2.2 × 1 mm; dorsal sepal reflexed, ovate, curled; lateral sepals adnate with lip forming short mentum, triangular to deltate, slightly larger than dorsal sepal; petals reflexed, white or pink, narrowly obovate to oblong, 1–1.5 × 0.5 mm; lip erect, white, basally auriculate, hoodlike, enclosing column, shallowly saccate, 1–2 mm, fleshy, apiculate; column adaxially adnate to sepal tube, minute (0.3 mm), apex winged; ovary sessile, 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> erect, ellipsoid, 4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Dec–early Mar.
|habitat=Hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Galapagos Islands).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Prescottia oligantha
|authority=(Swartz) Lindley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cranichis micrantha;Prescottia gracilis;Prescottia myosurus;Prescottia panamensis
|basionyms=Cranichis oligantha
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Dec–early Mar.
|habitat=Hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Galapagos Islands).
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.,
|publication year=1840
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1058.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Prescottiinae
|genus=Prescottia
|species=Prescottia oligantha
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