Kefersteinia andreettae G.Gerlach, Neudecker & Seeger 1989 Photo by © Patricia Harding

Common Name Andreetae's Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a fan shaped growth consisting of several, grading into leaf bracts, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, elongate, conduplicate, distichous, acuminate, acute to minutely apicaulate, basally petiolate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on multiple, axillary, laxly erect, terete, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescencesubtended by 2 floral bracts, the larger almost envelop\ing the peduncle and is ovate reniform.

Synonyms Kefersteinia salustianae D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 264 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 wrong!