Catasetum blackii Pabst 1964
SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Isoceras Photo by © Patricia Harding
Inflorescence Photos by © Daniel Souza
Common Name or Meaning Black's Catasetum [Original Discoverer of Species late 1900's]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in the region surrounding the Sao Franscisco River in southwestern Bahia and northern Minas Gerais states of Brazil at elevations of 600 to 800 meters as a large sized, warm growing, rarely seen epiphyte on palms with the largest flowers of the C cristatum complex with elliptic pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying plicate, spathulate, acute basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, erect to pendant, 16" [40 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescence and features flowers with a trilobed lip and crossed antennae on the column.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005 photo/drawing fide
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