Octomeria napoleon is a species of flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is an epiphyte with leathery leaves and yellow sepals. The species is native to Colombia and Brazil.
Octomeria napoleon was first described in 2010, though the name was not validly published until 2019.
Taxonomy The name Octomeria napoleon was first used by Carlyle A. Luer in 2010. The name was not validly published, as Luer cited two herbaria when listing a holotype. In 2019, Adam Philip Karremans and Karen Gil-Amaya validated the name.
Distribution Octomeria napoleon is native to the wet tropical biome of south-east Colombia and northern Brazil (including Amazonas).
Description Octomeria napoleon is a small but robust epiphyte with slender roots. The stems are long, and surrounded by two or three tubular sheaths.
The leaves are thickly leathery, elliptical, suffused with purple, long, and up to wide.
The inflorescence has a single flower, which grows on a stem around long. The sepals are yellow, elliptical-oblong, around long, around wide, and have three veins. The petals are elliptical, around long, and around wide. The lip is around long, and around wide. The lip has three lobes. The column is slender, cylindrical, and around long.
Etymology Luer's original description of the species states that the specific epithet "napoleon" means "lion of the woodland, the powerful, little general".
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