Benzingia jarae (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dressler 2005 Photo by © Guenther Gerlach, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

A Peruvian, miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species found in wet montane forests around altitudes of 100 to 1400 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 and can bloom in the spring and again in the fall on a 1.6" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Not to be confused with Stenia jarae with which it is often confused. They are two different species.

Synonyms *Ackermania jarae D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1995;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Brittonia 47. 182. 1995 as Ackermania jarae; ICones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 204 Bennett & Christenson 1995 as Ackermania jarae drawing fide; *Lankesteriana 5(2): 93. 2005; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide

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