Kefersteinia sanguinolenta Rchb. f. 1852 Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

Another Flower Photo by © Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Blood-Stained Kefersteinia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

An Ecuadorian, Colombian, Peruvian, Bolivian and Venezuelan, miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing species found in dense subtropical montane forests in deep shade low down on slender trees at altitudes of 900 to 2400 meters that has a few imbricating, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate base leaves giving rise to an axillary, erect, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with a solitary thin textured flower that is held below the leaves arising from spring until fall.

Synonyms Zygopetalum sanguinolentum Rchb. f. 1861

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 537 Dodson 1982

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