Ceratostylis octomerioides J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb 2010
Plant and Flowers Photo by © Tom Ballinger and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
LATER
EARLY 
Common NameThe Octomeria-Like Ceratostylis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Sabah Borneo in upper hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, cylindrical stems enveloped by 5 to 6 brown to reddish brown, imbricate, acute, reticulate nerved sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thick, tough, rigid, narrowly elliptic, elliptic to oblanceolate, minutely obliquely, acutely or obtusely bilobed apically, cuneate and conduplicate below into the base leaf that blooms in the later fall and early winter on a shortly pubescent, 1" [2.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with an oblong-triangular, acute, concave, thin, transparent, glabrous, floral bracts.
Similar to Ceratostylis borneensis but differs mostly in the plant which in this case has wide elliptic to oblanceolate leaves instead of thinner, elongate linear leaves.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010 drawing/photo fide;
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