Octomeria oxichela Barb. Rodr. 1881

Another Plant same area Photos courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name The Pointed Lip Octomeria

Flower Size 1/4" [.65 cm]

Found in Brazil as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte that has an elongate stem carrying a single apical, lanceolate leaf that blooms on a single flowereed inflorescence with the flowers hewld close to the leaf base.

The in situ plant photos are from Boia Ceia', Sao Paulo State, Brazil at an elevation of 2 meters in the first scrub hammock on the beach on trunks and limbs of small trees with lichen.

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