Catasetum trulla Lindl. 1840 SUBGENUS Orthocatacetum SECTION Anisoceras C trulla Alliance Photo by © Mauro Peixoto
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Common Name The Scooped Catasetum
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in SE Brazil in the coastal Atlantic forest as a medium sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte found in Atlantic coastal forests in large trees with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying oblong-ligulate, plicate leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, to 12" [30 cm] long, arching to pendant, many [to 20+] flowered raceme with fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Catasetum liechtensteinii Kraenzl. 1892; Catasetum socco (Vell.) Hoehne 1952; Catasetum trulla var lichtensteinii [Kraenzl.] Mansf. 1932; Catasetum trulla var trilobatum Schlechter 1932; Cypripedium socco Vell. 1831; Paphiopedilum socco (Vell.) Pfitzer 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 as C liechtensteinii drawing ?; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1892 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 10 1958 photo; Orchidaceae Brasilienses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Panama Williams 1980; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 7 1983 photo; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 5 1994; The World of Catasetum Holst 1999 photo good; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982;
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