Octomeria cordilabia C.Schweinf. 1961 SECTION Planifolia

Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

MID

Common Name or Meaning The Heart-Shaped Lip Octomeria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Venezuela and northern Brazil at elevations of 1550 to 2150 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 10, close, imbricating, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical,acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the mid fall through spring on a fascile of .04" [1mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising st the base of the leaf.

Part of the SECTION Planifolia O pusilla alliance with O concolor, 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.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide

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