Benzingia caudata (Benzingia caudata)
Description
It is a small orchid that is found as a growing hanging plant, and prefers hot to cold weather, has a growing epiphytic habit that has a short rhizome with no pseudobulb and a short stem wrapped at the base by several pods of the distichous leaves the short basal and other longer linear,conduplicated towards the base of the leaves. It blooms in the spring and summer in a pendulous and erect inflorescence of 7.5 cm long, the inflorescence comes from the axils of the upper leaves and have 3 short, tubular bracts.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Benzingia
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