Catasetum tabulare Lindley 1840 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Another Clone Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
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Common Name The Table-Like Catasetum
Flower Size 4" across [10 cm across]
This medium sized, epiphytic species hails from Colombia and Brazil where it grows hot to warm at elevations of 1000 meters in tropical rainforest, riverine swamps and jungle and blooms in the spring through fall on a suberect, basal, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, few to several [2 to 6] flowered, racemose inflorescence with extremely fragrant, fleshy, flat opening flowers that arises from a newly formed pseudobulb and occurring in the late spring and summer.
Synonyms Catasetum caucanum Schltr. 1920; Catasetum finetianum L. Linden & Cogn. 1849; Catasetum pallidiflorum Schltr. 1920; Catasetum pallidum Cogn. 1894; Catasetum rhamphastos Krzl. 1907; Catasetum tabulare var brachyglossum Rchb.f 1880; Catasetum tabulare var finetianum [Cogn.] Mansf; Catasetum tabulare var laeve Rchb.f 1881; Catasetum tabulare var rhamphastos [Kraenzl] Mansf. ; Catasetum tabulare var rhinophorum Rchb.f 1880; Catasetum tabulare var rugosum Mansf. 1942;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as C caucanum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as C caucanum drawing hmm; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995; The World Of Catasetum Holtz 1999 photo fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide; An Illustrated Encycolpedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 2 2004 photo;
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