Catasetum rivularium Barb.Rodr. 1877 Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name or Meaning The Creek-Loving Catasetum

Flower Size 1.75" [4.8 cm]

Found in Amazonas Brazil in wet forests at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with fusiform slightly curved pseudobulbs carrying 6, linear-oblanceolate, very dark green, plicate, 3 nerved leaves that blooms in the fall on an arching then pendant, 8.6" [21.5 cm] long, to 16 flowered infloresccence carrying resupinate flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville and Garay 1965 as a syn of C barbatum; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;

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