Dilomilis oligophylla (Schltr.) Summerh. 1961>
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Common Name The Few Leaved Dilomilis
Flower Size
Found in Guantanamo and Holguin provinces of Cuba in rainforests and near rivers and streams at elevations around 500 meters as a just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte with a creeping, ascending, rigid, reed-like stem carrying 1 to 5, lanceolate-elliptic, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the fall through summer on a terminal, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Octadesmia oligophylla Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 21: 336 Schlechter 1925 as Octadesmia oligophylla
*Taxon 10: 253 Summerh. 1961
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Octadesmia oligophylla;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photos fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 75 #8 2006 photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014
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