Octomeria prostrata H.Stenzel 2001
Photos by © Julio Larramendi
TYPE Drawing and drawing by © H Stenzel and Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles
Common Name The Prostrate Octomeria [refers to the leaves which lie parallel to the tree trunk]
Flower Size
Found in Holguin province of Cuba in gallery forests on trees or on rocks along creeks at elevations around 500 to 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose, prostrate epiphyte with short ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, loose, hyaline sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, spathulate, obtuse apically, emarginate to tridentate, margiin minutely erosulate, purple beneath and convex, green above leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 2, arising from beneath the base of the leaf, to .24" [6 mm] long, successively single, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with hyaline, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to Pleurothallis excentrica as both have repent habit, short inflorescence and fleshy flowers." Stenzel 2001
Synonyms Atopoglossum prostratum (H.Stenzel) Luer 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Lindleyana 16: 26 H Stenzel 2001 drawing fide;
Systematics and evolution of the genus Pleurothallis R. Br. (Orchidaceae) in the Greater Antilles Hagen Stenzel 2004 drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Atopoglossum prostratum;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 as Atopoglossum prostratum photo fide;
Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 as Apatoglossum prostratum drawing fide
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