Octomeria concolor Barb. Rodr. 1881 SECTION Planifolia Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Plant and Flowers Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania.

Drawing Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name The Single-Colored Octomeria

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Bolivia and southern and southeastern Brazil st elevations of 250 to 850 meters as amini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to warm growing, shortly repent epiphyte with stout, erect,ascending at the abse ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4 shredded, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, pical, erectm coriaceous, narrowly elloiptical, acutenarrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on simultaneously 1 to 3, in a fascile, peduncle .04" [1 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying yellow-white flowers.

Flowers in an axillary cluster nestled in close to the base of the leaf best grown in small pots and a finer media.

Part of the SECTION Planifolia O pusilla alliance with O cordilabia, O micrantha, O pusilla, O sagittata, O stellaris and O warmingii. Plants in this alliance are less than 4” [10 cm] tall and have thin ramicauls and lanceolate to oblong-elliptic leaves.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 Drawing fide

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