Kefersteinia parvilabris Schltr. 1923 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Small-Lipped Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in premontane forests in deep shade at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters with a fan shaped growth without pseudobulbs and several, imbricate, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying spathulate-oblanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate leaves giving rise to a lateral, 2 to 3 1/4" long, single flowered inflorescence subtended by triangular bracts occuring in the late spring and summer.

Synonyms Chondrorhyncha parvilabris (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1956; Kefersteinia deflexipetala Fowlie 1966; Senghasia parvilabris (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1439 Atwood 1992; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;