Kefersteinia tolimensis Schltr. 1920 Photo by © Alexander Moran Mendez SECTION Papilionatae
Plant and flower in situ Mistrato', Risaralda department of Colombia elevation 1900 meters 8/17
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Photos by © Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Tolima Kefersteinia [A Department In Colombia]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Tolima department of Colombia, as well as Ecuador and Venezuela in dense cloud forests low down on tree trunks at elevations around 1300 to 2100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a rather short sterm enveloped completely by distichous, imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying broadly oblanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, long attenuate basally leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on an axillary, erect to pendant, 3.2" to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 photo fide; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 # 9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 2 1987 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 21 #3 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 22 #2 2002 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #3 2002 as K taurina photo fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo not; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 26 No 1 2009 as k tolimensis var semialba photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orchids A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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