Zootrophion dayanum 'Gigi' (Big) Benzingia and the prominent lip is

and the prominent lip is boldly veined and flared at the margins

Best cultivated on a cork mount or in a small container filled with a coarse

star-shaped flowers with narrow reflexed tepals and a contrasting white-to-lavender trilobed lip

The magnificent

Zootrophion dayanum 'Gigi' (Big) Benzingia and the prominent lip isA large, well established division of this selected cultivar from the cloud forests of Ecuador, forming voluminous, multi growth clumps with large, thick, intensely glossy ovate leaves. The pendant flowers are among the most architecturally imposing in the genus: large, strongly ribbed ellipsoid structures with dense papillose texture and a prominent lateral aperture revealing a contrasting interior produced directly from the pseudobulb base in a