Octomeria brevifolia Cogn. 1896
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Thin Leafed Octomeria
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guyana, Surinam and northern Brazil at elevations of 50 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphytye with very long, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, dry, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, short, terete, acute leaf with no differentiation from the stem and the channeled, leaf that blooms on a very short, fasiculate, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem througha small spathe att the base of the channeled leaf.
Synonyms Octomeria brachypetala Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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