Octomeria stellaris Barb.Rodr. 1881 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and © Orchidstudium

Common Name The Star Shaped Octomeria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Rio de Janiero Brazil in open primary forests as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphtye with stiff, green, noded stems carrying a single, apical, subulate, light green becoming dark purple leaf that blooms in the winter on a short, 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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