Kefersteinia escalerensis D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1994 Photo by © Patricia Harding

Common Name The Ladder-Like Kefersteinia

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests low on tree trunks at elevations around 1000 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fan shaped growths giving rise to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, grey-green, attenuate to the narrow conduplicate petiolate base leaves that blooms inthe falli n cultivation on a horizontal, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflroescence with a bract near the middle and two infundibular, much shoreter than the ovaries flroal bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 270 Bennett & Christenson 1995; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 667 Bennett & Christenson 2001