Catasetum juruenense Hoehne 1915 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBGENUS Convergentes

Female Flower Photos by © Katia Seagull and Her Orchid Web Site

Male and Hermaphrodite Flower Photo by © Ron Parsons

Another Color Form Photo by © Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

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Common Name The Rio Juruena Catasetum

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

This is a medium sized, warm growing Brazilian species from Matto Grosso state occuring only on dead trees in gallery forests along the Juruena river with clustered, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying linear-lanceolate, medium green, plicate leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, suberect, racemose, 11" [28 cm] long, several [9] flowered, long lasting inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Catasetum juruenense var mansfeldianum Hoehne 1942

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C juruenense var mansfeldianum drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #1 2016 photo fide;

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