Octomeria micrantha Barb.Rodr. 1877 Drawing by © Martius Eichler Urban and Wikimedia Website

Full ShadeWarmSpring again in the Fall

Common Name The Small Flowered Octomeria

Flower Size .25" [3.5mm]

Found in southeastern Brazil and to Missiones Argentina in lichens and mosses in primary forests as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 acute sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, acute, somewhat mucronate, greenish yellow, the upper surface semi-shiney gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and again in the fall on a lateral,

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;

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