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

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Common Name Jara's Stenia [Ecuadorian Collector of species - current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A caespitose, fan-shaped, Peruvian, miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species found in wet montane forests around altitudes of 900 to 2200 meters with fan-shaped leaf clusters that have narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, abruptly acute at the obtuse apex, carinate mid-vein, dark green leaves that are attenuate below to the conduplicate, petiolate base that is articulated to the sheath base that can bloom at any time of the year as a new growth arises on an axillary, 2" [5 cm] long, pendant to erect inflorescence with 3 basal, tubular, thin, loose bracts and a floral bract that is shorter than the ovary, with few to several, successive opening flowers that occur over months holding the flower at midleaf.

Synonyms Ackermania jarae{Benn} D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1995; *Stenia jarae D. E. Benn. 1992

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 189 Bennett & Christenson 1993

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