Octarrhena parvula Thwaites 1861 Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Flower CloseupFull Shade Warm Spring

Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Octarrhena

Flower Size .10" [2.7mm]

Found in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in hill, oak/laurel, lower montane and dry forests on sanstone ridges at elevations of 900 to 1800 meters on tree trunks and branches as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with many close set, non-branching stems carrying many, laterally flattened, linear, acute, light green leaves that blooms in the spring on more than one per stem, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, to 14 flowered, two ranked inflorescence with shortly triangular, acute floral bracts

Synonyms Octarrhena nana (Hook.f.) Schltr. 1911; Phreatia nana Hook.f. 1890; Phreatia parvula (Thwaites) Benth. ex Hkr.f 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;