Catasetum ferox Kraenzl. 1895 Drawing by anon

Common Name or Meaning The Ferocious Catasetum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana? in open savannahs at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an ovoid pseudsobulb carrying a few, plicate leaves that blooms on an erect, few to several flowered inflorescence and carrying non-resupinate flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing ok; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide;

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