Octomeria marsupialis Luer 2010 TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

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Common Name The Pouched Octomeria [refers to the pouch like tip of the lip]

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in Venezuela at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect, terete ramicauls enveloped by 4 to 5, ribbed, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thickly coriaceous, purple suffused, narrowly elliptic-ovate, acute apically, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a fascile, peduncle less than .04" [1 mm] long, with imbricating sheaths, arising at the apex of the ramicaul, successively single flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bract and carrying dark purple flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXXI Luer 2010 Drawing fide

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