Octomeria decumbens Cogn. 1896 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

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Common Name The Prone Octomeria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in SE and S Brazil in primary forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with terete, narrow, acute, deep dark green, keeled, narrowing below into the thin, stiff, jointed, elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms late spring on a cluster of 1 to 4 simultaneous flowers arising from the leaf base.

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