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Stenia caudata is an orchid species identified by (Ackerman) Dodson & D.E.Benn. in 1989. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Benzingia caudata.
ORIGIN: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a pendant growing, small sized, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters in wet, shady, cloud forests on tree trunks.
DESCRIPTION: Found in Ecuador and Peru as a pendant growing, small sized, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters in wet, shady, cloud forests on tree trunks that has a short rhizome with no pseudobulbs and a short stem enveloped basally by several distichous leaf sheaths with the basal ones short and the others longer with linear, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a pendant and then erect, 3 [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the upper leaf axils and having 3 short, tubular bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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