Kefersteinia tinschertiana Pupulin 2004
SECTION Papilionatae
Photo by © Moises Behar
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Common Name Tinschert's Kefersteinia [German Orchid Enthusiast in Guatemala 1915-2006]
Flower Size 1" to 1.2" [2.5 to 3cm]
Found in Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala on bases of shade trees in wet montane forests and along streams in drier areas at elevations around 900 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with rudimentary pseudobulbs enveloped by the leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 5 to 6, linear to linear-oblong to oblanceolate, acute-acuminate, basally conduplicate, arcuate, soft, flexible, sulcate above, carinate below leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a filiform, .92 to 1.8" [2.3 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with cucullate, inflated, papery, ovate-subquadrate, obtuse to rounded floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 as K costaricensis photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 7 2006 photo fide; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1034 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo not =?
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