Pterostemma benzingii (Dodson) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2009
Photos by © Alexander Hirtz
Photos by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by Dodson © .
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Common Name Benzing's Pterostemma [American Orchid Enthusiast and Co-collector of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in southern Colombia and Ecuador in wet montane forsests on small twigs high in the canopy at elevations around 1850 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying equitant, conduplicate, oblique, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring and early summer on an axillary, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts
Synonyms *Hirtzia benzingii Dodson 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 924 Dodson 1984 as Hirtzia benzingii drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996 as Hirtzia benzingii photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as Hirtzia benzingii drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide/drawing ok;
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