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Octomeria oncidioides

Octomeria oncidioides
Photo: Photographs by M. M. Jiménez. Plate made by G.A. Iturralde and H.X. Garzón, based on M. Jiménez 2670., CC BY 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte
Native range
Bolivia
Climate
wet tropical

About

Octomeria oncidioides is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is an epiphyte native to Bolivia and Ecuador. The species was described in 2003, and is listed in Appendix II of CITES.

Where it grows

Octomeria oncidioides is native to the wet tropical biome of Bolivia. In April 2026, it was reported in south-eastern Ecuador (Morona-Santiago Province and Zamora-Chinchipe Province). The species is also likely to occur in the Peruvian Andes.

Other Octomeria plants

Octomeria aloifolia · Octomeria brevifolia · Octomeria chamaeleptotes · Octomeria chloidophylla · Octomeria cochlearis · Octomeria colombiana · Octomeria concolor · Octomeria condorensis · Octomeria connellii · Octomeria cordilabia · Octomeria corrigiosa · Octomeria costaricensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Octomeria oncidioides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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