Catasetum purum Nees & Sinning 1787 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION Anisoceras Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Female Flower Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name The One-Colored Catasetum

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

This is a large sized, warm to hot growing Brazilian epiphytic species found in very dry conditions growing on dead trees with fusiform to subconical pseudobulbs that become sulcate with age and carrying medium green, oblanceolate, plicate leaves that blooms on a basal, erect, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, racemose, several flowered inflorescence ariaing on a mature or half mature pseudobulb with fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall.This plant needs a dry winter rest after leaf fall and ample water while in it's growth phase.

Synonyms Catachaetum purum [Nees & Sinning]Hoffmans.; Catachaetum semiaptertum Hoffmans.; Catasetum immaculatum hort. Ex Planchon; Catasetum inapterum Steud. 1840; Catasetum semiapterum Hook. 1827

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing hmm/photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo fide; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Pabst & Dungs 1976; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photos fide;

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