Octomeria alpina Barb. Rodr. 1881 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

Flower with different colored lip Photo by Nancy Anne Rowe

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Elisabeth Kerschbaum of Austria

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Nancy.

Common Name The Alpine Octomeria

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in SE & S Brazil in humid, open, high montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a stout, stiff stem enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, faintly keeled, linear, acute leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising for several years from the same ramicaul

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994

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