Catasetum naso Lindl. 1843

Female Flower Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum & Co. WebsiteCopyright ©

Common Name The Nose Catasetum

Flower Size 1 1/5" to 3 1/5" [4 to 8 cm]

Found in Peru and Venezuela in lowland and moderately elevated forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with fleshy, white roots and fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 6, linear-lanceolate, medium green, plicate leaves and blooms on a erect to arcuate, 15" [38 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence occurring in the fall with very fleshy, heavily fragrant flowers. This species and C sanguineum are very similar but differ in C naso, only the basal margins of the lateral lobes are lacerate and the pedicels are much longer. In C sanguineum the lateral lobes have all margins lacerate.

Very similar to C sanguineaum but differs in the much smaller, in all aspects, and the more protruding nose above the midlobe apex of the lip among other characteristics

Synonyms Catasetum charlesworthii auct.1928; Catasetum naso var charlesworthii Mansf. 1942;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as C sanguineum in part upper left only drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as C sanguineum upper left only drawing fide; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1958; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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