Kefersteinia bengasahra D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1994 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

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Common Name Bengasahra's Kefersteinia

Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]

Found in Peru at elevations of 250 meters in wet montane forests as asmall sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with no pseudobulb and held in a fan-shape, linear-lanceolate, acute, basally conduplicate leafs subtended by imbricating sheaths that blooms on a slender, axillary, semi-erect, 1 5/8" [4 cm] long inflorescence subtended by a single loose bract at the peduncle and carrying a single, campanulate flower below the leaves occuring at most any time of the year.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Orchidaceae Peruviarum Plate 266 Bennett & Christenson 1995