Kefersteinia pastorellii Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989 SECTION PapilionataePhoto by © Ron Parsons

MID

Common Name Pastorelli's Kefersteinia [Peruvian Orchid Enthuisiast current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Peru in moderately wet forests at elevations around 1470 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a short stem carrying in a loose fan, a few, distichous, linear-lanceolate, articulated below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer through mid-fall on 1 to 3, axillary, thin, ascending, to 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 2 subtending, 1, loose, ovate, acute the others ligulate and shorter bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 85 Dodson 1989 drrawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 6 2003 photo fide; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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