Prosthechea hajekii D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2001
Photo by A.J.Ballon and the Atrium Biodiversity Information System Website
TYPE Drawing by Pastorelli/Bennett & Christenson
Common Name Hajek's Prosthechea [Peruvian Orchidist passed 2006]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Junin department of Peru in the lower levels of montane cloud forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, mat-forming terrestrial with slender, cylindric-fusiform, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, linear, coriceous, green suffused with brown, shortly conduplicate into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising through an elongate, linear-lanceolate spathe and carrying up to 20 flowers
Synonyms Anacheilium hajekii (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Withner & P.A.Harding 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Orchidacearum Peruvianum Plate 750 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing ok;
The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 as Anacheilium hajekii photo fide;
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