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Orchid Species: Brassia bennettiorum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Brassia bennettiorum is an orchid species identified by (Dodson) Senghas in F.R.R.Schlechter in 1997.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru in wet montane forests at altitudes around 1600 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with very small, ovate pseudobulbs enveloped almost completely by imbricate, distichous, conduplicate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear, arching, acute, conduplicate towards the base to form a petiole leaf and blooms in the late fall and winter on an axillary, erect then arching to drooping, few flowered, racemose, 2 [5 cm] long inflorescence with a fishook appearance.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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