Octomeria costaricensis Schltr. 1923
Photo by © Karremans and The The Epidendra Website
Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Common Name The Costa Rican Octomeria
Flower Size .3" [7 mm]
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane forests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, terete ramicaul enveloped by 4 to 5 sheaths and carrying a single, erect, ligulate, subacute, contracted below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a fasciculate, short, single flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts.
Synonyms Octomeria valerioi Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 111. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 889 Hamer 1983 as C valeroi drawing ok; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 as O valerioi drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as O valerioi photo fide
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