Benthamia nivea Schltr. 1924 Photos courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The White Benthamia

Flower Size 3/8 to 4/10" [.9 to 1 cm]

Found in the mossy forests of Madagascar at elevations from 2000 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with numerous, fusiform, villous tubers giving rise to a stem enveloped basally by several sheaths and carrying 3 to 4 very distant, oblong-lanceolate, plicate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the later summer on a terminal, cylyndrical, [6 to 13 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983