Octomeria costaricensis Schltr. 1923 Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Common Name The Costa Rican Octomeria

Flower Size .3" [7 mm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, terete ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 5 sheaths and carrying asingle, erect, ligulate, subacute, contracted below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fasciculate, short, single flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts.

Synonyms Octomeria valerioi Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 111. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993

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