Benzingia cornuta (Garay) Dressler 2005 Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Berstrom Orchids

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Common Name or Meaning The Horned Benzingia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters in wet, shady, cloud forests as a pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks.

Synonyms Ackermania cornuta (Garay) Dodson & R. Escobar 1993; *Chondrorhyncha cornuta Garay 1970

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 1 COS 1991 as Chondrorhyncha cornuta; Native Orchids Of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson 1994,