Catasetum denticulatum Miranda 1986 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Convergentes

Photo by © Wilma Braga

LATE and EARLY

Common Name The Small-Toothed Catasetum

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Rondonia state of Brazil in Amazonian rain forest at elevations of 100 to 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered fusiform pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by several deciduous leaf sheaths and carries 5 to 10, plicate, arched, oblanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a basal, erect to suberect, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising basally on a new pseudobulb lead.

This species needs a winter rest and enjoys moderate shade, even watering and fertilizing through its growth period

This species is similar to C cirrhaeoides and C pulchrum but differs in having the denticulate margins and the shallow concavity in the lip while the others have entire margins and a lip with a deep saccate hollow.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 5 1987 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilensis I Plate 027 Castro Neto & Campacci 2000 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 5 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #11 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide;

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