Catasetum stevensonii Dodson 1978 Photo BY © Pablo Bermudez

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Common Name or Meaning Stevenson's Catasetum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 100 to 650 meters in tropical rainforests as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with fusiform, ridged, 8 to 9 bracted/noded eachgiving rise to a basally clasping sheath the uppermost being leafbearing and carrying lanceolate, plicate, shortly acuminate gradually narrowing into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a male inflorescence, basal, descending, 14" [35 cm] long, densely 12 to 16 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers witha clove scent. The female inflorescence pictured here is an erect, bsaal, 4 to 5" [10 cm to 12.5 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence arising on mature leafy pseudobulbs.

The pictured flower is a female

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 408 Dodson & Bennett 1982 drawing fide for femal flower; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 021 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 420 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing; The World Of Catasetum Holst 1999; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo male

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