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Orchid Species: Kefersteinia alba
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Kefersteinia alba is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1923.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador in wet forests at elevations of 100 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with subcoriaceous, to 5, narrowly elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that are articulated into the basal leaf sheaths and all held in a fan shape that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, to 3/4 [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the flower below mid leaf. Differs from K lactea by the lyre-shaped callus, triangular wings above the middle of the column and a rhombic shaped lip. K lactea does not have the column wings nor does it have a slightly trilobed lip.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/5 inch [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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