Kefersteinia costaricensis Schltr. 1918
Another Angle Photos courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Costa Rican Kefersteinia
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in shaded, wet, montane forests at elevations 50 to 1350 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs but has erect and spreading, to 5, arranged in a fan-shape, petiolate, articulate to the leaf sheaths, thin, elliptic-lanceolate, carinate beneath, acute leaves that blooms on a lateral to descending, 3/4 to 1 5/8" [2 to 4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that can occur at any time of the year.
Synonyms Chondrorhyncha costaricensis (Schltr.) P.H. Allen 1949; Senghasia costaricensis (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003
References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 793 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1539 Atwood 1993; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005
