!Neobenthamia gracilis Rolfe 1891 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Brian A. O'Brien Copyright ©
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Common Name The Graceful Neobenthamia
Flower Size to 1" [to 2.5 cm]
Found in Tanzania as a giant sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte on dry exposed rock faces or on mossy ledges at altitudes of 380-2000 meters with branched, erect or straggling stems often forming keikis at the nodes and carrying many linear, distichous, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a terminal, branched or racemose, densly many flowered, to about 5" [12.5 cm] long inflorescence with fragrant flowers held in a spherical head occuring from the winter till the spring and is a hot to warm growing lithophytic or terrestrial species requiring a bark mix in a pot.
Synonyms Polystachya holtzeana Kraenzl. 1914; Polystachya neobenthamia Schlechter 1903
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