Octomeria andreana Campacci & Baptista 2011
Drawing Photos/Drawing by © Marcos Campacci and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Andre's Octomeria [Brazilian Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .45" [1.1 cm]
Found in Sao Paulo Brazil in the Atlantic rainforest at elevations around 20 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with thin, articulated, erect ramicauls enveloped by dried sheaths and carrying a single, apical, subcoriaceous, flexible, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves with a pronounced longitudinal rib on the back that blooms in the spring on a short, terminal, single flowered inflorescence.
Similar to O concolor but differs in the oblong-lanceolate leaves, the often isolated intense yellow, larger flower with a much shorter and wider lip with retrose lateral lobes.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 9: 346 Campacci & Baptista 2011 photos fide
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