Benzingia palorae (Dodson & Hirtz) Dressler 2005 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning The Palora Ackermania [A town In Ecuador]

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations arouind 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, pendant, hot to warm growing epiphtye with a very short stem enveloped completely by the bases of the leaf bearing sheaths and carrying, glaucous-green, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaves taht blooms in the summer and fall on an axillary, single flowered, 3.2" [8 cm] long inflorescence carrying 1 to 2 adpressed, ovate bracts

Synonyms Ackermania palorae (Dodson & Hirtz) Dodson & R.Escobar 1993; Chondrorhyncha palorae (Dodson & Hirtz) Senghas & G.Gerlach 1992; *Stenia palorae Dodson & Hirtz 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 583 Dodson 1989 as Stenia palorae