Octomeria tridentata Lindl. 1839 SECTION Planifolia
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Drawing by Barbosa Rodrigues, Courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name or Meaning The Three-Toothed Octomeria
Flower Size .38" [9 mm]
Found in Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam, Brazil and Peru at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose to shortly ascending epiphyte with stout, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 6, fast shredding sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical to narrowly elliptical-oblong, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, peduncle .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, at the apex of the ramicaul, successively single to simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with shorter thant he ovary floral bracts and carrying white to yellow flowers with a yellow lip.
Part of the SECTION Planifolia, O tridentata alliance with O gracilicaulis, O juergensii, O oxichela, O pinicola, O iguapensis, and O umbonulata. Plants within this alliance are under 8" [20cm] tall, have fine ramicauls and lanceolate leaves
Synonyms Octomeria multiflora Barb.Rodr. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Vol 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #2 2019 photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 drawing fide
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