Kefersteinia andreettae G.Gerlach, Neudecker & Seeger 1989 SECTION Papilionatae 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 apiculate, basally petiolate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on multiple, axillary, laxly pendant, terete, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence subtended 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 ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Orchidee (Hamburg) 40(4): 133—136. 1989; Brittonia 46(1): 37. 1994 as K salustianaeIcones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 264 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 wrong!; Huntleya and Related Orchids Harding 2008