Octomeria saundersiana Rchb.f. 1880 Drawing by © Pabst

Part Shade

Common Name Saunder's Octomeria

Flower Size

Found in Brazil without locality as a small sized epiphyte with short stems carrying a terete, subulate, canaliculate leaf that blooms on a fasciculate, short, successively single flowered inflorescence carrying membraneous, ochre-yellow flowers with purple stripes.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list as Hapalorchis lineata , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992;

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