Octomeria albopurpurea Barb.Rodr.1881 Photo by © Dale Borders.

Common Name The White And Purple Octomeria

Flower Size .55" [1.4 cm]

Found in SE and S Brazil at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrow, elongate, acute, deeply keeled, light green, gradually narrowing below intothe elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, successively single to 3 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994

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