Kefersteinia orbicularis Pupulin 2000 Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Side View of Flowers Photo by © Daniel Jimemnez, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR .

Full Shade HotWarm Winter

Common Name The Circular Kefersteinia [refers to the shape and placement of the lip]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in premontane rain forest to cloud forest and disturbed primary forests at elevations around 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 2 to 3, obovate-elliptic, acute to obscurely retuse, slightly undulate, narrowing below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaves that blooms on a pendant, 1.6 "[4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with 1 or 2 bracts occurring in the winter

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Lindleyana 15: 25. 2000; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008

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