Anacheilium hajekii (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004 Photo by A.J.Ballon and the Atrium Biodiversity Information System Website

Common Name Hajek's Anacheilium [Peruvian Orchidist current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Junin Peru in the lower levels of cool montane cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium szied, cool growing, mat-forming terretrials with slender, cylindric-fusiform, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, linear, coriceous, green suffused with brown, shortly conduplicate into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising through an elongate, linear-lanceolate spathe and carrying to 20 flowers

Related to A hartwegii

Synonyms *Prosthechea hajekii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum Plate 750 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing ok; *The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo fide;

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