Octomeria aloefolia Barb. Rodr. 1881

Plant and Flower Photo by Americo Docha Neto courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista.

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Common Name The Aloe-Like Leaf Octomeria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais states of Brazil at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with small clustered stems carrying a single, apical, cylindrical, red splotched basally leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4 short, fasciculate, successsive, single flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005

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