Catasetum aculeatum F.E.L.Miranda & K.G.Lacerda 1992 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras
Side View of Flower Plant grown by Sebastiao Cesar de Freitas Photos by © Juan Fernandez Gomez and his Flickr Rondonia Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Pointed Catasetum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Amazonas state of Brazil in rainforests at elevations around 50 to 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, fusiform, erect pseudobulbs enveloped by deciduous sheaths and carrying 5 to 6, oblong-lanceolate, arcuate, narrowing below into the pseudo-petiolate, clasping base leaves that blooms in the later fall on a male, arched, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, to 9 flowered inflorescence carrying resupinate flowers held in the distal 3/5 ths and with lanceolate, clasping bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses I Plate 21 Castro & Campacci 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001;
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