Octomeria brevifolia Cogn. 1896 Photo courtesy of © Maarten Sepp Maarten Sepp
Another Flower Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name The Thin Leafed Octomeria
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Fr Guyana, Surinam and northern Brazil at elevations of 50 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphytye with very long, terete ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3, dry, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, short, terete, acute leaf with no differentiation from the stem and the channeled, leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a very short, fasiculate, successively single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature stem through a small spathe at the base of the channeled leaf.
The first photo seems to be most correct, the last four are least correct.
Synonyms Octomeria brachypetala Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo ok; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing/photo ok for 1st photo; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
