Kefersteinia expansa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1878Photo by © Patricia Harding

Common Name The Elongate Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in western Ecuador at elevations of 100 to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a fan shaped growth with distichous, narrowly lanceolate attenuate to the conduplicate, narrow, petiolate base leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, horizontal, to 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Zygopetalum expansum Rchb.f. 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 119 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson