Catasetum discolor (Lindl.) Lindl. 1834 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © Photo by Dan Souza and Orchidstudium
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Common Name The Differently Colored Catasetum
Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]
A large sized terrestrial, epiphyte or occasional lithophyte found in inland South America from Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and northern and eastern Brazil in sandy soil between tufts of grass and under bushes and low trees near gallery forests at 500 to 1100 meters with ovoid to narrowly ovoid-fusiform, 2 to 3 noded pseudobulbs that become heavily ridged with age and enveloped basaly by several leaf bearing sheaths carrying 6 to 7, plicate, petiolate, linear-lanceolate, acute, deciduous leaves that blooms on an erect to arcuate, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence with fragrant, fleshy, inverted flowers occuring in the late fall to winter on a mature pseudobulb that is still leafed or not.
Synonyms Catasetum cassideum Linden & Rchb. f. 1873; Catasetum ciliatum Barb.Rodr. 1877; Catasetum claesianum L. Linden & Cogn. 1893; Catasetum discolor f genuinum Mansf. 1902; Catasetum discolor var bushnani Cogn. 1902; Catasetum discolor var claesianum [Cogn.] Mansf. 1942; Catasetum discolor var vinosum Cogn 1894; Catasetum discolor var viridiflorum [Hkr.] Cogn. 1902; Catasetum roseo-album (Hook.) Lindl. 1840; Monachanthus bushnani Hook. 1840; Monachanthus discolor Lindl. 1834; Monachanthus discolor var. bushnani Hook. 1837; Monachanthus discolor var. viridiflorus Hook. 1837;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 drawing hmm; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C discolor var fimbriatum drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C discolor f genuinum drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C discolor var claesianum drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 3 1961 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing not = C roseum album; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 8 1970 photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing ok [no hair]; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 as C ciliatum photo fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 1st drawing not = C roseum album, 2nd drawing ok [no hair]; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Native Colombian Orchids COS Vol 1 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok [no hair]; AOS Buletin Vol 71 No 5 2002 photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;
Catasetum discolor (Lindl.) Lindl. 1834
Catasetum discolor (Lindl.) Lindl. 1834
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