Catasetum ferox Kraenzl. 1895
SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Divaricatae
Photo by © Juan Fernandez Gomez and his The Orquideas Rondonia Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by anon
Common Name or Meaning The Ferocious Catasetum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana? in open savannahs at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an ovoid pseudobulb carrying a few, plicate leaves that blooms on an erect, few to several flowered inflorescence and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; Flora de VenezuelaVolumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good missing calli on sides of lip; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo NOT =?
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