!Benzingia hirtzii Dodson ex Dodson 1995 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Hirtz's Benzingia [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1 1/8" [3 cm]

Found in NE 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, .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Benzingia hirtzii Dodson 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icon. Pl. Tropic., ser. 2, 5: pl. 406. 1989, nom. illeg; *Lindleyana 10(2): 74. 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1994; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008;