Kefersteinia excentrica Dressler & Mora-Ret. 1993 SECTION Umbonatae

Another Flower Photos courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Full Shade Warm Spring

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 at elevations around 1100 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte that blooms in the spring on an axillary, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Pupulin 2005

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