Kefersteinia candida D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1994 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Snow White Kefersteinia

Flower Size just under 1 " [2 cm]

Found in Peru occuring at elevations of 700 to 2300 meters in wet montane forests as a small sized, cool to warm growing, fan-shaped, caespitose epiphyte without psuedobulbs with lanceolate, acute, leaves that are conduplicate at the base and articulated to the leaf sheaths where it blooms on an axillary, laxly pendant, single flowered inflorescence held below the leaves with 2, close, basal bracts and 2, subopposite floral bracts occuring intermittently throughout the year.

References W3 Tropicos,Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 268 Bennett & Christenson 1995