Catasetum napoense Dodson 1978 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras SUBSECTION Convergentes

Photo by © Rudolf Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

MID EARLIER

Common Name The Napo Catasetum [A Province of Ecuador]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in northeastern Ecuador and Peru in wet tropical forests at elevations around 500 to 550 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with fusiform, several noded, enveloped by soon evanescent sheaths and carrying thin, heavily veined beneath, plicate, distichous, elliptic-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the mid winter through earlier spring on an erect, basal, female 3 to 4 flowered or male to 12" [30 cm] long, 11 to 21 flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 407 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo okish????

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