Benthamia elata Schltr. 1918
Photo by © Rick Burian and The Orchid Conservation Alliance Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
EARLIER
Common Name The Beautiful Benthamia
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in south central Madagascar at elevations of 750 to 1200 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying in the lower half, 5 to 6, narrowly ligulate to oblanceolate, acuminate-obtuse, leaves and 4 to 6, lanceolate-acuminate sheaths above that blooms in the winter and earlier spring on an erect, [30 to 37.5 cm] long, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, cylindrical, elongated, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly acuminate, slightly longer than the flowers floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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