Kefersteinia excentrica Dressler & Mora-Ret. 1993 SECTION Umbonatae
TYPE Photo by © Dressler and The Herbario AMO Website
TYPE Drawing/Photos by © Dressler and The Herbario AMO Website
Photos by Franco Pupulin.
EARLY
Common Name The Excentric Kefersteinia [refers to the off center lip]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with 4 to 5, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, keeled, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an axillary, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with membraneous, triangular bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; *Orquídea (Méx.) 13: 261. Dressler 1993 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Pupulin 2005 photo fide; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide to the first photo; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 photo fide;
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