Octomeria brevifolia Cogn.

Bull«
Torrey
Club 75:216
1948.
Octomeria brevifol.ia Cogn.; Mart. FI. Bras. 34 : 643, pi. 133, f. 2. 1896.
Plant small and very slender, up to 19 cm. high; stems filiform, caespitose,
uriifoliate at the apex, up to 15.5 cm. long; leaf relatively short or very short,
subterete, channelled, acute or acuminate; peduncles solitary or two, abbre-
viated, 1-flowered; flower small, with spreading membranaceous segments;
sepals and petals similar, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; lip much shorter,
sharply 3-lobed near the base with small triangular lateral lobes. Surinam :
epiphyte, abnormally long leaves 4.5-6.5 cm. long, in high bush, east border
.of Savanna IV, Tafelberg, 24379. Also British Guiana and Brazil.
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