Octomeria rodriguesii Cogn. 1896 Photo by © Floralia and their Brazilian Orchid Website

Common Name Rodriguez's Octomeria

Flower Size 1/8 to 1/4" [6 to 7 mm]

Found in southeastern Brazil in primary forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with linear-lanceolate, acute, long petiolate base leaves that has a short inflorescence with a single flower that occurs in the winter.

Synonyms Octomeria gracilis Barb. Rodr. 1881; Octomeria semiteres Regel 1856

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

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