Octomeria graminifolia (L.) R.Br. 1813 Drawing by Curtis's Botanical Magazine" vol.54 (N.S. 1) pl. 2764 and Botanicus Website

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Common Name The Grass-Like Leaved Octomeria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Fr Guiana, Northern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador in lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to an erect ramicaul enveloped basallly by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, thick, carinate, acute, conspicuously apiculate, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, single flowered inflorescence holding the faintly fragrant flower close to the leaf base.

Synonyms Dendrobium graminifolium (L.) Willd. 1805; Enothrea graminifolia (L.) Raf. 1838; *Epidendrum graminifolium L. 1763; Humboltia apiculata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Octomeria apiculata (Lindl.) Garay & H.R.Sweet 1972; Octomeria baueri Lindl. 1830; Octomeria graminifolia var. ophioglossoides Griseb. 1864; Octomeria longirepens Schltr. 1924; Octomeria serpens Schltr. 1925; Pleurothallis apiculata Lindl. 1859;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 1 Foldats 1969 as O longirepens; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as O apiculata drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1972 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as O apiculata drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 887 Dodson 1983 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok;

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