Catasetum moorei C. Schweinf. 1970 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Part sunHotWarm CULTIVATION Spring

Common Name Moore's Catasetum [Lee Moore, Floridian and Orchid Adventurer Current]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Moyobamba region of North central Peru as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in low montane forests on the eastern slopes of the Andes at elevations of 600 to 900 metere on rotting branches of trees with narrowly cylindrical to fusiform pseudobulbs carrying oblanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, plicate leaves where it blooms on an erect, 2' [60 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with the flowers in the apical quarter occurring in the spring in cultivation in Key West but summer to autumn in nature.

CAUTION I am not sure of this ID but it is unlike any Catasetum that is pictured so far, If anyone can do better please write me.

Synonyms Catasetum lanxiforme Senghas 1991

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999 as C lanxiforme; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo hmm; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo wrong?

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