Catasetum lanciferum Lindl. 1841 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION?

Female Flower Photos by © Gunter Gerlach and His Stanhopinae Website

Common Name The Small Sword Catasetum

Flower Size 2 3/4" [6.8 cm]

Found in Peru and Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with elliptical pseudobulbs enveloped by leafless and leafbearing sheaths carrying linear-oblanceolate, medium green, plicate, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a male inflorescence - almost erect then arching, to 14" [35 cm] long, to 20 flowered or a female inflorescence that is almost straight, to 7" [to 18 cm] long, and carrying up to 3 flowers.

Synonyms Catasetum appendiculatum Schltr. 1925

ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999 as C appendiculatum drawing/photo fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999; The World's Most Beautiful Orchids Allikas & Nash 2005 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko and Bermudez 2009 as C barbata [male] Arias photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #4 2016 photo fide;

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