Kefersteinia mystacina Rchb.f 1881 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Howard Gunn

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Common Name The Bearded Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

A small sized species found from Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru occuring in moist forests at an altitude of 100 to 1400 meters that is a hot to warm growing epiphyte without pseudobulbs, having narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaves with imbricating basal, conduplicate sheaths that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, wiry, axillary, single flowered inflorescence holding the flower at mid leaf. Keep wet year round for the best results.

Synonyms Zygopetalum mystacinum Rchb. f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 506 Dodson 1989; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;