Benzingia
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| Benzingia | |
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| Benzingia caudata | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Cymbidieae |
| Subtribe: | Zygopetalinae |
| Genus: | Benzingia Dodson[1] |
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Benzingia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.
It is sometimes known as Ackermania Dodson & R.Escobar, but this is an illegitimate name according to the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.[2]
Habitat
These species are usually found in montane forests of South America, especially shady, foggy and moist ones.[citation needed]
Species
As of May 2012 nine species are recognized:[3]
- Benzingia caudata (Ackerman) Dressler (syns Ackermania caudata, Chondrorhyncha caudata, Stenia caudata) – Peru (Cordillera del Cóndor), Colombia and Ecuador[citation needed]
- Benzingia cornuta (Garay) Dressler
- Benzingia estradae (Dodson) Dodson
- Benzingia hajekii (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dressler (syn. Ackermania hajekii) – Peru; epiphyte, growing in wet tropical forest, at an altitude of around 3600 feet, flowering during June and July[citation needed]
- Benzingia hirtzii Dodson
- Benzingia jarae (D.E.Benn. & Christenson) Dressler (syn. Ackermania jarae) – Peru (Huánuco), threatened[citation needed]
- Benzingia palorae (Dodson & Hirtz) Dressler (syns Ackermania palorae, Stenia palorae))
- Benzingia reichenbachiana (Schltr.) Dressler
- Benzingia thienii (Dodson) P.A.Harding
See also
- List of Orchidaceae genera
References
- ↑ "Benzingia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2012-05-15
- ↑ "Ackermania", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2012-05-15
- ↑ Search for "Benzingia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2012-05-15
- Orchid Research Newsletter No. 47 (January 2006) (Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew)
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press.
- Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press
- Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
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