Octomeria diaphana Lindley 1939 Photo courtesy of Nelson Machado

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Common Name The Translucent Octomeria

A SE Brazilian, small sized, epiphytic species from the Organ Mountains with slender, terete, erect, 3 to 4 noded stems carrying a single, apical, erect or slightly spreading, rigid, fleshy, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaf that is tinged with purple that blooms on an axillary, 1/10" to 1/5" [.3 to .5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

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