Benzingia cornuta (Garay) Dressler 2005 Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Bergstrom Orchids

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Common Name or Meaning The Horned Benzingia

Flower Size 2" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around [400]1500 meters in very wet, shady, cloud forests as a pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte on tree trunks with a fan of linear-lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate below into the conduplicate base leaves that blooms on an erect to arcuate, thin, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ackermania cornuta (Garay) Dodson & R. Escobar 1993; *Chondrorhyncha cornuta Garay 1970

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Orquideología 5: 20. 1970 as Chondrorhyncha cornuta; Orquideología 18: 206. 1993 as Ackermania cornuta; *Lankesteriana 5: 93. 2005; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 1 COS 1991 as Chondrorhyncha cornuta; Native Orchids Of Ecuador Vol 1 Dodson 1994; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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