Systeloglossum bennettii (Garay) Dressler & N.H.Williams 1970 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Plant and flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Bennett's Systeloglossum [Peruvian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Junin Peru at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, egg-shaped pseudobulb enveloped by 2 pairs of distichous, overlapping leaf braing sheaths and carrying a single, leathery, longitudinally conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, longer thaqn the leaf, to 10" [25 cm] long, rachis short, to 9 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb
Synonyms Diadeniopsis bennettii (Garay) Szlach. 2006; *Diadenium bennettii Garay 1967
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996; Orchid Species Culture: Oncidium, Bakers 2006;
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