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Benzingia hirtzii (Benzingia hirtzii)

Description

Found in northeastern Ecuador on tree trunks in extremely wet forests at elevations around 700 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte without pseudobulbs and has a fan-shape of conduplicate leaves and blooms in the suumer and fall on a pendant to lateral, .8 2 cm long, single flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying a non-resupinate flower

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Benzingia