Coryanthes cataniapoensis G.A.Romero & Carnevali 1989 Lamellunguis SECTION Lamellunguis SUBSECTION Acutigaleatae
Photo by © Dave Siegrist
Drawing by © Bruno Manara courtesy of G A Romero & Gerlach
Common Name The Cataniapo Coryanthes [Río Cataniapo in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela]
Flower Size 4.8" [12 cm]
Found in Amazonas state of Venezuela and Brazil in wet forests at elevations around 100 meters as a hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to ovoid to narrowly ovoid, grooved pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong-elliptic, acuminateplicate, 3 conspicuous nerved, narrowing below into the sulcate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a pendant, 7.2" to 10" [18 to 25 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.
Differs from C macrantha in the globose hypochile with the anterior margin almost reaches the epichile and in the toothlike rojections near the base of the mesochile.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 454 Romero and Carnevalia 1989 drawing fide; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo hmm; Harvard Pap. Bot. 5: 179-180 Romero & Gomez 2000 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 37/38 pg 2309 - 2436 Brieger 19991999; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Richardiana Vol 5 Chiron & Marcal 2021 Une Orginisation infragenerique de Coryanthes [Orchidaceae]
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