Benthamia sp

Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion Photos by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website

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Common Name The ? Benthamia

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Reunion as a small to medium sized terrestrial with 2 to 3, horizontal, linear, well spaced and grading smaller up the stem, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal erect, several flowered inflorescence with shorter than the swollen ovary floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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