Anacheilium bennettii [Christ] Withner & Harding 2004 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Bennett's Anacheilium [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast Current]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

A Peruvian, medium sized, terrestrial or lithophytic species found at elevations of 2000 to 4150 meters that grows cool to cold and occurs on rocks, or on red clay, loam soil with organic litter and has a cylindric, lightly compressed, slender pseudobulb that is basally enveloped by 2 to 3 sheathings that cover more than the lower half with 2 to 3 clasping, narrowly oblong leaves which flowers in the late summer and fall on an apical, erect, 10" [22 cm]long, racemose, inflorescence, arising on a mature pseudobulb, that is just longer than the leaves and having minute floral bracts. The several small spreading flowers are held opposing each other. This species comes from an area with reduced rainfall and relies on dews to survive. Carlos Hajek's picture is upside down this orchid has non resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Encyclia bennettii Christenson 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum plate 236 Bennet & Christenson 1995 as Encyclia bennetii drawing not; *The Cattleyas and Their Relatives; The Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo not;

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