Catasetum peruvianum Dodson & D.E.Benn. 1989 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Convergentes
Photos by © Jose Luis Panozo Añez
TYPE Drawing by © D.E.Benn. & Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Delphina Arauja Orchid News Webpage
Common Name The Peruvian Catasetum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Peru in montane forests at elevations around 500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by 8 to 9, foliaceous sheaths and carring plicate, elliptic, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, shorter, few flowered female inflorescence and a basal, longer, many flowered male inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 0019 1989 drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992;
The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999;
Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo not?
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