Benzingia hirtzii

(Benzingia hirtzii)

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Description

Found in northeastern Ecuador on tree trunks in extremely wet forests at elevations around 700 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte without pseudobulbs and has a fan-shape of conduplicate leaves and blooms in the suumer and fall on a pendant to lateral, .8 2 cm long, single flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying a non-resupinate flower

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Asparagales
Family:Orchidaceae
Genus:Benzingia
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