Benzingia reichenbachiana (Schltr.) Dressler 2005 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name Reichenbach's Benzingia [German Orchidologist 1800's]

Flower Size 3 1/4" [8 cm]

Found in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica in premontane rain forests on shady tree trunks and lower branches at elevations of 700 to 1400 meters as a pendant growing, fan-shaped, miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with out pseudobulbs with elliptic-lanceolate, very dark, gray green leaves that are conduplicate at the base which blooms on a somewhat pendant, axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature growth occurring throughout the year.

Synonyms *Chondrorhyncha reichenbachiana Schltr. 1921; Zygopetalum lamellatum Rchb.f ?; rg/W3T/Search/vast.html">W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17: 15. 1921 Chondrorhyncha reichenbachiana; *Lankesteriana 5(2): 93-94. 2005; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1991; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1412 Mora & Atwood 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 5 1997 drawing; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006; Huntleyas and Related Orchids Harding 2008