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Orchid Species: Benzingia hajekii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Benzingia hajekii is an orchid species identified by (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dressler in 2010.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool growing, caespitose, pendant epiphyte with fan-shaped growths with oblanceolate, graduating in size form the base, attenuate to the conduplicate petiolate base, acuminate, thin, pale grayish green leaves with the mid-vein carinate that blooms in the spring on a 2 [5 cm] long, single flowered, axillary from the base inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with 2 distant, lanceolate, acuminate bracts and paired, subopposite, infundibuliform floral bracts holding the campanulate flower at mid-leaf.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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