Kefersteinia lactea (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1923 SECTION Kefersteinia Photo by Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Milk-White Kefersteinia

Found in Mexico, Costa Rica and Panama as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 850 to 1200 meters that has oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, obscurely plicate leaves and blooms on an axillary, erect to slightly arching, 3/4" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer and early fall.

Synonyms Chondrorhyncha lactea (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1942; *Zygopetalum lacteum Rchb. f. 1872

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005