Benzingia estradae (Dodson) Dodson 1995 Photo courtesy of Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Flower Head On Photo by Ecuagenera Ecuagenera Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning Estrada's Benzingia [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in SW Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1100 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped by several distichous, erect to spreading, articulated to the conduplicate sheaths, narrowly obovate, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, single flowered, nodding to pendant, 2.8" [7 cm] long, inflorescence with 2 to 3 small bracts.

Synonyms *Chondrorhya estradae Dodson 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 22 Dodson 1980 as Chondrorhyncha estradae; Icon. Pl. Tropic., ser. 2, 5: pl. 406. 1989 as Benzingia cornuta non illegal; *Lindleyana 10(2): 74. 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1994; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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