Kefersteinia koechlinorum Christenson 2000 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding ©

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Common Name Koechlin's Kefersteinia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Peru in the Macchu Picchu area in seasonally dry montane forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a fan of narrowly lanceolate, decurrently- petiolate, acute condupicate below into the petilate base that blooms i nthe spring and fall on a several, suberect to laxly sub-pendant, 3" [7.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with funnel-shaped, broadly obovate, obtuse floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 483 Bennett & Christenson 1998

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