Kefersteinia pusilla (C. Schweinf.) C. Schweinf. 1970 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

Common Name The Tiny Kefersteinia

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Peru at elevations of 1800 meters in cool, wet montane forests at elvations of 1700 to 2500 meters as a fan-shaped, miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with imbricating clusters of 3 elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acte to apiculate, thin leaves that have a conduplicate, petiolate base and blooms on a slender, laxly arching, axillary inflorescence enclosed by 3 to 4 scarious, imbricating sheaths at the base with nodding, campanulate flowers with 2 floral bracts held at mid-leaf occuring in nature at any time of the year.

Synonyms *Chondrorhyncha pusilla C. Schweinf. 1944

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 072 Bennett & Christenson 1993