Octarrhena minuscula Aver. & Duy 2015

TYPE Drawing TYPE Photo/TYPE Drawing by Averyanov © and Taiwania 61(4):319-354 November 2016, New Species of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nong, Nguyen and Truong

Common Name or Meaning The Miniscule Octarrhena

Flower Size .076 to .088" [1.8 to 2.2 mm]

Found in southern Vietnam in primary and old broad-leaved evergreen humid, submontane forests at elevations of 950 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an abbreviate stem enveloped completely by 3 to 7, imbricate, equitant, distichous, articulate basally, fleshy, subterete, laterally compressed, ensiform, oblong-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, mostly broadest at the abse, narrowing towards the triangular-acute apex leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, arising from a leaf axil, almost straight to slightly curved, smoewhat secund, light green, peduncle indistinctly longitudinally ribbed, stout, erect, .08 to .2" [2 to 5 mm] long, naked or with 1 to 2 small rtiangular sterile bracts, rachis straight, .08 to .2" [2 to 5 mm] long, 4 to 18 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acuminate, single veined, light green to almost white becoming dull yellowish, membraneous flral bracts and carrying resupinate, subsessile, campanulate flowers that do not open well.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan Drawing/photo fide

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