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Common Name The Grass-Like Kefersteinia

Flower Size 1 1/2 to 2" [4 to 5 cm]

A warm to cool growing, medium sized, fan-shaped, epiphytic species without psuedobulbs found in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Brazil in dense forests close to the ground on tree trunks that has clustered, abbreviated stems enveloped by 4 to 5 distichous, imbricating leaf sheaths carrying suberect to arching, linear-oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, leaves that are articulated below into the conduplicate leaf sheaths and has an axillary, short, erect to arcuate inflorescence carrying from 1 to 3, thin-textured flowers per inflorescence occuring in the summer and fall, requiring year round watering and fertilizing.

Synonyms Huntleya fimbriata Hort. 1852; *Zygopetalum gramineum Lindl. 1844

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005