Benzingia hajekii (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dressler 2005 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name or Meaning Hajek's Benzingia [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast- now]

Flower Size [1 1/2" [4 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing, caesiptose, pendant epiphyte with fan-shaped growths with oblanceolste, graduating in size form the base, attenuate to the conduplicate petiolate base, acuminate, thin, pale grayish green leaves with the mid-vein carinate that blooms on a 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered, axillary from the base inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with 2 distant, lanceolate, acuminate bracts and paired, suboppisite, infundibuliform floral bracts holding the campanulate flower at mid-leaf and occuring in the spring.

Synonyms *Ackermania hajekii D.E. Benn & Christenson 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Bennet & Christenson 2001 as Ackermania hajekii