Octomeria gracilis Barb. Rodr. 1881 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania

Common Name The Graceful Octomeria

Flower Size 1/8 to 1/4" [6 to 7 mm]

Found in SE Brazil in primary forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with small needlelike, linear-lanceolate, petiolate base leaves that has a short inflorescence with simultaneous, clustered, [3 to 6] flowers held in a fascile that occurs in the winter.

I am not sure of this determination as it is said to be 3 to 6 flowered and I do not have the flower to dissect, so use with caution.

Synonyms Octomeria rodriguesii Cogn. 1896; Octomeria semiteres Regel 1856

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

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