Octomeria diaphana Lindley 1939
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Common Name The Translucent Octomeria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
A southeastern Brazilian, small sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species from the Organ Mountains in humid, primary forests on mossy tree trunks and branches with slender, terete, erect, 3 to 4 noded stems carrying a single, apical, erect or slightly spreading, rigid, fleshy, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaf that is tinged with purple that blooms late spring and early summer on an axillary, 1/10" to 1/5" [.3 to .5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994
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