Catasetum teixeiranum Campacci & J.B.F.Silva 2008 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras

TYPE Drawing Photo/Drawing by © Campacci & G.F.Carr and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Teixeira's Catasetum [A Brazilian Researcher current]

Flower Size 1.9" [4.75 cm]

Found in Amazonas state of Brazil at elevations around 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with fusiform, several noded, sulcate and rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying oblong-lanceolate, green, margins undulate, prominent veind dorsally leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a male, lateral, sinuous, shorter than the leaves, to 7" [17.5 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Colet. Orquídeas Brasil. 6: 190 Campacci & G.F.Carr 2008 drawing/photo fide

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