Catasetum parguazense G.A.Romero & G.Carnevali 1989 SUBGENUS Catasetum SECTION Isoceras

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Photos by © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Flower detail drawing

Drawing by Dunsterville © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

TYPE Drawing

Photo/TYPE Drawing by © Gustavo A Romero & German Carnevali

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Common Name The Paragua River Catasetum [Venezuelan River]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Venezuela and Brazil growing on trees along river banks and in wet forests at elevations of 50 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying, dark green, oblanceolate, plicate leaves and blooms in the spring and summer with a basal, slightly arching then pendant, 6" [15 cm] long, 2 to 8 flowered inflorescence arising on a newly emerging pseudobulb carrying resupinate flowers.

"Similar to C callosum but differs in the subcordate lip and truncated basal callus and it differs from Catasetum poriferum Lindl. 1838 by having long, fully developed antennae and a labellum with erect, patent lateral lobes. It is further distinguished by flowering almost invariably from the developing leaf shoot." Romero and Carnevalli 1989

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as C bicallosum drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964 as C bicallosum;

Orchids of Venezuela; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as C bicallosum drawing fide;

* Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 457 Romero and Carnevalia 1989 drawing fide;

Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992;

The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;

Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide;

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