Catasetum integerrimum Hooker 1840
SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Isoceras
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Photo by © Weyman Bussey
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Common Name The Intact Catasetum
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Cuba? found on trees in humid forests, coffee plantations and open country at elevations up to 1850 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 8, oblong-lanceolate, plicate, deciduous leaves and blooms in the late spring till fall on an arching to suberect, 8" [25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with bracts arising on a mature pseudobulb. The 3 to 10 fleshy, fragrant spice scented flowers do not open well, and they can be male [rightmost flowers in photo], female [leftmost flowers in photo] or hermaphroditic.
The flowers appear to be monks wearing cowls and as all Catasetums have the capability of ejecting their pollina [arrow 2 in photo] from the male flower, up to 8 feet with the purpose of depositing it on an insects back that is rummaging around the flower. The photo here shows both male and female flowers and if examined closely [arrow 1 in photo], you can see the pollina within the stigmatic cavity.
Synonyms Catasetum integrinum Beer; Catasetum integerrimum var flavescens Cogn. 1894; Catasetum integerrimum var. luteo-purpureum Cogn. 1902; Catasetum integerrimum var. purpurascens Hook. 1840; Catasetum integerrimum var. viridiflorum Hook. 1840; Catasetum maculatum Bateman non Kunth 1822; Catasetum wailesii Hkr. 1842
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C integerrimum var flavescens; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C integerrimum var luteo-purpureum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C integerrimum var purpurascens; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C integerrimum var viridiflorum; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 2 1957 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 2 1961 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Hamer 1974 drawing/photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 2 1983 photo plant only; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 # 7 1983 photo fide; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985; An Introduction to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photos fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Oaxaca Suarez 2004 photo fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 6 Hagaster 1990 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 628 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5 #2: Carnevali etal 2001; Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide; Algunas Orquideas de Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2013 photo fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 photo fide
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