Octomeria tapiricataractae G.A.Romero & Luer 2002

Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Tapir Cataracts Octomeria

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela at elevations around 1546 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, fugacious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, dark green suffused with purple above and beneath, narrowly elliptical to narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a fascile of a few, peduncle .1" [2.5 mm] long, at the apex of the ramicaul, successively single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying light orange flowers with a yellowish lip with a central, reddish, triangular spot.

"Distinguished by the little, narrow, purplish, thickly coriaceous leaf. The broadly obtuse floral parts are less than .08" [2 mm] long. The lip is broader than long, with a broadly rounded apex between obtuse, lateral angles on either side witha pair of oblique calli converging from the marginal angles to above the apical margin." Luer 2010

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide ;

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