Octomeria integrilabia C.Schweinf. 1935

Drawing by Foldats

Collection sheet Collection sheet housed by Kew Science Website

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Common Name The Smooth Rimmed Lip Octomeria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Guyana and Roraima Brazil as well as Guadeloupe Island of the Caribbean in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with thin erect ramicauls enveloped completely in youth by tubular evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong to linear, terete to semi-terete, canaliculate, abruptly acute, shortly to inconspicuously petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring summer and fall on 1 to a few, axillary, single flowered inflorescence with flowers that do or do not open well, sepals and petals pink to transluscent yellow, often with purplish red veins and apices and a reddish to yellow lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing flower fide, plant?; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 # 9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ofide to flower, plant?; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Romero & Carnelvali 2000 drawing fide to flower, plant?; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 Drawing fide

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