Benzingia cornuta (Garay) Dressler 2005
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo by © Gilberto Escobar
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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; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 as Chondrorhyncha cornuta; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 as Chondrorhyncha cornuta photo fide; Orquideología 18: 206. 1993 as Ackermania cornuta drawing/photo fide; ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 as Ackermania cornuta photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 as Ackermania cornuta photo fide; Orquideologia Vol. 21 No 1 Dodson 2000 as Ackermania cornuta photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001 as Ackermania cornuta; *Lankesteriana 5: 93. 2005; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #6 2009 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 as Ackermania cornuta drawing/photo fide
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