Catasetum spitzii Hoehne 1941SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Divaricatae Photo by © Orquidario Cuiaba and Orquidario Cuiaba Website

Another Color form Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium

Inflorescence Photo by © Gustavo Coral

Female Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Common Name Spitz's Catasetum [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm]

Found in Brazil and Bolivia at elevations up to 800 meters in subtropical forests as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with short, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying several, plicate, narrowly elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a newly developing pseudobulb with a basal, 16" long [40 cm], horizontal, several to many [11 to 35] flowered inflorescence carrying color and size variable flowers.

This plant needs a decided rest after leaf fall and should get little or no water or fertilizer until new growth appears.

Synonyms Catasetum spitzii f. album (L.C.Menezes) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004; Catasetum spitzii var. album L.C.Menezes 1997; Catasetum spitzii var. roseum L.C.Menezes 1997; Catasetum spitzii var. sanguineum L.C.Menezes 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #8 1967 photo not; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0310 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Orchids of Brazil McQueen 1993 photo fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Boletim CAOB #48 2003; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #4 2016 photo fide;

Catasetum spitzii f. album (L.C.Menezes) F.Barros & J.A.N.Bat. 2004 Photo courtesy of © Robson Carvalho

An alba variety of the previous species.

SynonymsCatasetum spitzii var. album L.C.Menezes 1997

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide

Catasetum spitzii var. sanguineum L.C.Menezes 1997 Photo by anon

A red colored variety of the previous species.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateua Menezes 2004 photo fide

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