Kefersteinia gemma Schltr. 1874 Photo courtesy of Chorizo and Marisa Londono

Another Flower Angle Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Gem Kefersteinia

Flower Size just under 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and western Ecuador at elevations of 600 to 1400 meters in wet, humid forests low to the ground as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with equitant, subcoriaceous, articulated at the base, distichous, lanceolate, plicate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, 2" [5 cm] long, axillary, single flowered inflorescence that holds the flower below the leaves near the base of the plant.

Synonyms Zygopetalum gemma Rchb. f. 1874

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 120 Dodson 1980; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;