Kefersteinia laminata (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1920. SECTION Papilionatae Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Blade-like Kefersteinia [A reference to the leaves or the free callus]

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in very wet montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with distichous, conduplicate and articulated at the base, sheaths carrying, progressively larger, narrowly lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, erect, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the the flower below mid-leaf height.

Synonyms Zygopetalum forcipatum Hort. 1885; *Zygopetalum laminatum Rchb.f. 1885

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Gard. Chron., n.s. 24: 70. 1885 as Zygopetalum laminatum; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 121 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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