Catasetum tabulare Lindley 1840 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Catasetum
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Common Name The Table-Like Catasetum
Flower Size 4" across [10 cm across]
Found in Colombia and Brazil in tropical rainforest, riverine swamps and jungle where it grows warm to cool at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, epiphytic species that blooms in the late spring and summer on a suberect, basal, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to several [2 to 6] flowered, racemose inflorescence with extremely fragrant, fleshy, flat opening flowers that arises from a newly formed pseudobulb.
SynonymsCatasetum finetianum L. Linden & Cogn. 1849; Catasetum pallidiflorum Schltr. 1920; Catasetum pallidum Cogn. 1894; Catasetum rhamphastos Krzl. 1907; Catasetum tabulare var brachyglossum Rchb.f 1880; Catasetum tabulare var finetianum [Cogn.] Mansf; Catasetum tabulare var laeve Rchb.f 1881; Catasetum tabulare var rhamphastos [Kraenzl] Mansf. ; Catasetum tabulare var rhinophorum Rchb.f 1880; Catasetum tabulare var rugosum Mansf. 1942;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C caucanum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var rugosum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var rhinophorum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var laeve; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var brachyglossum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var pallidum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var rhamphastos; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C tabulare var finetianum; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 26 Schlechter/Brieger 1992 as C caucanum; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 as C finetianum; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; An Illustrated Encycolpedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 24 #1 2005 photo fide; Orquideas del Valle de Aburra Medellin Colombia Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideologia 2014 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide
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