Catasetum deltoideum (Lindl.) Mutel 1837 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Divaricatae

Inflorescence Photos by © Maarten Sepp

Part sunWarmTo CoolSummer

Common Name The Triangular Catasetum

Flower Size

Found in Guyana, Fr Guiana, Surinam and Brazil in forests at higher elevations as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong-fusiform pseudobulbs carrying deciduous, plicate, many nerved, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, green basally grading to maroon towards the apex, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Myanthus deltoideus Lindl.1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; ; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999 drawing fide/photo not;

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