Octomeria grandiflora

"Octomeria grandiflora Lindl. is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil (São Paulo to Paraná).

Octomeria grandiflora Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 64 (1842).

Octomeria grandiflora Lindl., Photo by Juliano Freire Zagatti

Octomeria grandiflora Lindl., Photo by Vaughan Nelson

its native range is W. South America to Brazil.

Latin Name: 

Octomeria grandiflora Lindl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Octomeria arcuata Rolfe

Octomeria boliviensis Rolfe

Octomeria grandiflora var. robusta (Barb.Rodr.) Cogn.

Octomeria grandiflora var. seegeriana (Kraenzl.) Cogn.

Octomeria lobulosa Rchb.f.

Octomeria robusta Barb.Rodr.

Octomeria robusta Rchb.f. & Warm.

Octomeria ruthiana Hoehne

Octomeria seegeriana Kraenzl.

Octomeria similis Schltr.

Octomeria truncata Hoffmanns.

English Name:

The Large-Flowered Octomeria

Description: 

With terete below and laterally compressed above tufted stems carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate to narrowly linear-rhombic, acute, erect to arcuate, coriaceous-rigid, leathery, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf. It has a single flower arising in the fall through spring on a very short, fasciculate, several flowered, axillary inflorescence arising on a mature ramicaul with papery sheathing bracts, carrying the single flowers at the base of the leaf.

Distribution:

Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.

Ecological:

At elevations of 100 to 2500 m, as a medium sized, wet forest, hot to cool growing epiphyte that is mat-forming and is the largest in the genus both vegatatively and florally

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall through spring.

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to warm conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Mar 1, 2006 20543.000 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/646235-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:646235-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/octgrandiflora.htm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octomeria_grandiflora

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Octomeria_grandiflora