Kefersteinia stevensonii Dressler 1972 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Common Name or Meaning Stevenson's Kefersteinia

Flower Size

Found in western Ecuador in montane cloud forests in deep shade at elevations of 450 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with imbricate, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths carrying distichous, linear-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, 2" [5 cm] long, single, flowered inflorescence with an acuminate, loose bract below the middle and another above the middle and holding the flower below the leaves..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 122 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002;